{"id":1779,"date":"2004-02-09T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/09\/1779.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:21","slug":"whats-the-fuss-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/09\/whats-the-fuss-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the fuss about?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Only President allowed himself to <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4179618\/\">Meet the Press<\/a> yesterday, in the person of Tim Russert. Your Humble Blogger took a pass.\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the biggest news of the day, though. It&#8217;s as if the only opportunity to examine the President&#8217;s record, his statements, and his character is when he is on television. I hope all my Gentle Readers are aware that the president gives a brief talk on the radio <I>every week<\/I>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/radio\/\">transcripts and audio<\/a> are available through the White House web site. The radio counts, too.\n\n<p>Also, everything, and I mean everything, Our Only President says in public is recorded and compiled by the Library of Congress, in weekly doses, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/wcomp\/2004.html\">available on the internet<\/a>. If you thought it was odd that he brought up steroids in the <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2004_presidential_documents&amp;docid=pd26ja04_txt-10.pdf\">State of the Union<\/a>, well, he brought it up again a few days later while <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2004_presidential_documents&amp;docid=pd26ja04_txt-20.pdf\">talking to the World Champion Florida Marlins<\/a> (and his good buddy Jeffrey H. Loria).\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not knocking the Meet the Press interview. It just seems to be a Big Deal, and it isn&#8217;t, or shouldn&#8217;t be.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Only President allowed himself to Meet the Press yesterday, in the person of Tim Russert. Your Humble Blogger took a pass. It\u2019s the biggest news of the day, though. It\u2019s as if the only opportunity to examine the President\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16914,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/16914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}