{"id":1203,"date":"2006-05-06T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2006-05-06T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T14:27:44","slug":"speaking_truthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Truthiness To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>In the latest CBS poll, President Bush has an abysmal <A href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/BushJob.htm\">33% approval rating<\/A>.&nbsp; Even my Republican friends are starting to admit that Bush is not Ronald Reagan reincarnate.&nbsp; And while the mainstream seemed determined to ignore it at first, <A href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4973617448770513925\">Stephen Colbert&#8217;s scathing roast of the Prez<\/A> is starting to get the attention it deserves.&nbsp; C-SPAN, which originally aired Colbert&#8217;s monologue, is hoping to take advantage of the buzz and make a few bucks by selling <A href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanstore.org\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&#038;products_id=192243-1\">DVDs of the event<\/A>.&nbsp; Then there&#8217;s the surprise resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss, which might indicate that things are not going well for the Administration as it continues to wage the War on Terror (or <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/5\/6\/10153\/12430\">World War III<\/A>, for the drama queens out there).&nbsp; All in all, another bad week in a long string of bad weeks for the President.&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Things might be a little wonky around here for the next day or two as I move the blog to a new server.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve decided to go with <A href=\"http:\/\/www.livingdot.com\/\">LivingDot<\/A> for my hosting needs.&nbsp; I like the fact that they market specifically to bloggers and they have gotten some good reviews from other customers.&nbsp; Stay tuned.&nbsp; <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest CBS poll, President Bush has an abysmal 33% approval rating.&nbsp; Even my Republican friends are starting to admit that Bush is not Ronald Reagan reincarnate.&nbsp; And while the mainstream seemed determined to ignore it at first, Stephen Colbert&#8217;s scathing roast of the Prez is starting to get the attention it deserves.&nbsp; C-SPAN, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1203' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}