{"id":199584,"date":"2007-07-12T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/12\/bush-hates-the-disabled\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T01:51:00","slug":"bush-hates-the-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/12\/bush-hates-the-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Hates the Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/michael_tomasky\/2007\/07\/a_new_low.html\">Bush administration forbade the Surgeon General from going to the special Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason given?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Why couldn&#8217;t he attend? Because of the games&#8217; association with a certain &#8220;prominent family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Carmona: &#8220;I was specifically told by a senior person, &#8216;Why would you want to help those people?'&#8221; (Let&#8217;s be charitable and assume that by &#8220;those people,&#8221; the official meant the family and not the disabled children.) When asked after the hearing whether that &#8220;prominent family&#8221; was the Kennedys, Carmona replied, &#8220;You said it. I didn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Take a breath and contemplate this. The nation&#8217;s top health officer wanted to go to a completely non-political event and pin a few medals on the proud chests of disabled kids. And he was barred from doing so because showing up would have constituted lending aid and comfort to the Kennedys.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush and his evil minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">politicized the bloody Special Olympics<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>How small, how petty, and how evil do you have to be to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the Bush administration forbade the Surgeon General from going to the special Olympics. The reason given? Why couldn&#8217;t he attend? Because of the games&#8217; association with a certain &#8220;prominent family.&#8221; Carmona: &#8220;I was specifically told by a senior person, &#8216;Why would you want to help those people?&#8217;&#8221; (Let&#8217;s be charitable and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1074,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-medical","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199584"}],"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=199584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}