{"id":187291,"date":"2013-04-16T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/16\/why-does-george-w-bush-hate-america\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:19:00","slug":"why-does-george-w-bush-hate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/16\/why-does-george-w-bush-hate-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does George W. Bush Hate America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because that is the only reason that he would approve of his aid <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/blue-texan\/former-bush-speechwriter-bush-aides-thr\">threatening to ban William F. Buckley from the radio because he criticized them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Buried in this op-ed by former Bush speechwriter Matt Lattimer about Margaret Thatcher <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-04-11\/opinions\/38459019_1_baroness-thatcher-iron-lady-gop-leaders\/2\">is this incredibly juicy nugget.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A few years later, when (William F.) Buckley questioned  the wisdom of the Iraq war and George W. Bush\u2019s 2008 surge, he was all  but drummed out of the conservative movement. \u201cIf you had a European  prime minister who experienced what we\u2019ve experienced, it would be  expected that he would retire or resign,\u201d Buckley once said of Bush.<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> For such apostasies, Bush aides threatened to ban Buckley from the radio airwaves<\/span>. (I know because I was there.)<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>These guys sound more like Stalinists every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because that is the only reason that he would approve of his aid threatening to ban William F. Buckley from the radio because he criticized them: Buried in this op-ed by former Bush speechwriter Matt Lattimer about Margaret Thatcher is this incredibly juicy nugget. A few years later, when (William F.) Buckley questioned the wisdom &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,970,969,1182,1051,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-corruption","category-evil","category-george-w-bush","category-hypocrisy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187291"}],"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=187291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}