{"id":1638,"date":"2010-09-29T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/29\/obamabush-double-standard\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T16:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:28:05","slug":"obamabush-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/29\/obamabush-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\/Bush Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/29\/in-iowa-a-skeptical-audience-greets-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">this The Caucus blog post<\/a> is similar to others reporting President Obama\u2019s recent backyard chats:&#160; In Iowa, a Skeptical Audience Greets Obama.&#160; That may be fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m curious why reporters aren\u2019t making the obvious comparison:&#160; George W. Bush would <em>never<\/em> subject himself to an audience, even when he was giving a public speech, that wasn\u2019t hand-picked and assured to be a GOP partisan one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on this The Caucus blog post is similar to others reporting President Obama\u2019s recent backyard chats:&#160; In Iowa, a Skeptical Audience Greets Obama.&#160; That may be fair enough. But I\u2019m curious why reporters aren\u2019t making the obvious comparison:&#160; George W. Bush would never subject himself to an audience, even when he was giving&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/29\/obamabush-double-standard\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}