{"id":398,"date":"2007-04-01T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=398"},"modified":"2007-04-14T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T00:41:06","slug":"the-new-york-times-editorial-on-april-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Editorial On April 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rovian Era<\/a>
\n“Turn over a scandal in Washington these days and the chances are you’ll find Karl Rove. His tracks are everywhere: whether it’s helping to purge United States attorneys, coaching bureaucrats on how to spend taxpayers’ money to promote Republican candidates, hijacking the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for partisan politics, or helping to organize a hit on the character of one of the first people to publicly reveal the twisting of intelligence reports on Iraq.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This Times editorial contains more truth than the paper has published in six years, including this characterization of the BushCo mission:<\/p>\n

“…the Bush administration’s far more menacing failure to distinguish the Republican Party from the government, or the state itself.”<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this just makes me wonder if tomorrow the Times will retract it all with a big “April Fools” <\/strong>headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rovian Era “Turn over a scandal in Washington these days and the chances are you’ll find Karl Rove. His tracks are everywhere: whether it’s helping to purge United States attorneys, coaching bureaucrats on how to spend taxpayers’ money to promote Republican candidates, hijacking the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for partisan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-6q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13915,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=13915","url_meta":{"origin":398,"position":0},"title":"Benghazi-Palooza: The New York Times Nails The Republican Circus","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/10\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Something has gotten into the water at the New York Times. 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