{"id":183426,"date":"2013-03-06T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/06\/oh-no-he-didnt-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-06T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:12:00","slug":"oh-no-he-didnt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/06\/oh-no-he-didnt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No He Didn’t!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Ney, former Congressman, and felon, wrote a book, and in it he claims that John Boehner promised him a well paying job if he were to end his reelection campaign<\/a> in his new memoire:<\/p>\n

The most inflammatory accusation against Boehner in the book is Ney\u2019s contention that he ended his reelection campaign after winning the primary in 2006 only after Boehner, then the majority leader, summoned the cash-strapped and embattled congressman to his office and told him if he quit the race, Boehner would take care of him. \u201cIf you resign the next day, I will personally guarantee you a job comparable to what you are making, and raise legal defense money for you that should bury all this Justice Department problem for you,\u201d Boehner said, according to Ney. He said he pressed Boehner, repeating the terms and getting assurance that the offer was \u201cironclad.\u201d When Ney called back the next day to accept the deal, he wrote that he again repeated the terms to Boehner, who agreed. \u201cBecause of Boehner\u2019s promise, I stepped aside,\u201d he wrote. But Ney said Boehner did not keep his word. \u201cI had been lied to and ditched,\u201d Ney said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure that I can believe that. That would be like claiming that John Boehner was on the floor of the house handing out campaign cash from cigarette manufacturers as they voted on subsidies for tobacco. \u2026\u2026\u2026 Wait! \u2026\u2026\u2026 What? \u2026\u2026\u2026 He did do that<\/a>?!?! \u2026\u2026\u2026 Never mind.<\/p>\n

A note about the article: I’m not sure if it is the author, George Condon, or his editor, but what is arguably the most explosive allegation is 7 paragraphs down, under the title, “Disgraced Ex-Congressman Attacks John Boehner in New Book,” and a subhead of, “Bob Ney, who was imprisoned for his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal, has some scores to settle.”<\/p>\n

I do understand why someone<\/b> would hate Bob “Freedom Fries” Ney, (I do) he is\/was a nasty piece of work, but burying the lede is not an appropriate response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Ney, former Congressman, and felon, wrote a book, and in it he claims that John Boehner promised him a well paying job if he were to end his reelection campaign in his new memoire: The most inflammatory accusation against Boehner in the book is Ney\u2019s contention that he ended his reelection campaign after winning …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,974,1175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-hack-journalism","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}