{"id":3733,"date":"2009-12-30T19:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2009-12-30T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T23:31:44","slug":"cheney-allen-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/30\/cheney-allen-print\/","title":{"rendered":"cheney, to allen, to print&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/12\/mike-allen-cheneys-chief-spokesman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Allen, Cheney&#8217;s Chief Spokesman<\/a><br \/> The Daily Dish<\/strong><br \/> Andrew Sullivan<br \/> 30 Dec 2009 <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1209\/31054.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>he goes again<\/strong><\/a>, the mouthpiece for Rove and Cheney, believing his &quot;access&quot; as a stenographer makes him a journalist. It doesn&#8217;t. It makes him a stenographer. Allen gussies up his source&#8217;s bile with a few fig leaf sentences and a gesture from a Democratic rebuttal. But he also offers the entire Cheney statement &#8211; a classic Dolchstoss attack on the president as a traitor &#8211; in full. I hope Allen gets his page-views. But shouldn&#8217;t the Cheneys be paying him rather than Politico?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">As I mentioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/30\/3731\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier<\/a><\/strong>, Cheney&#8217;s statement makes no sense. Sullivan is right to call Mike Allen&#8217;s hand on quoting Cheney with no pushback. Here are a couple of examples of the same thing from <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/01\/cheneys-exceptionalism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>earlier in the month<\/strong><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Allen, Cheney&#8217;s Chief Spokesman The Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan 30 Dec 2009 There he goes again, the mouthpiece for Rove and Cheney, believing his &quot;access&quot; as a stenographer makes him a journalist. It doesn&#8217;t. It makes him a stenographer. Allen gussies up his source&#8217;s bile with a few fig leaf sentences and a gesture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}