{"id":1519,"date":"2004-10-29T00:59:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T05:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/whatever-it-takes-indeed\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T00:59:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T05:59:47","slug":"whatever-it-takes-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/whatever-it-takes-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"whatever it takes &#8211; indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yet another example that crossed my desk.  truly,  the bush administration is willing to do &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; &#8211; spam,  doctored photos, appropriated endorsements from veterans, blocking opposition phone lines and so much more to keep their positions of power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=6650718\">Bush Campaign Acknowledges Ad Was Doctored<\/a> [reuters, october 28, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>President Bush&#8217;s campaign acknowledged on Thursday that a television ad depicting soldiers listening to Bush speak had been doctored so that some of the faces of the soldiers appear more than once.<\/p>\n<p>Released five days before Election Day, the ad was called, &#8220;Whatever It Takes&#8221; and had been touted by Bush advisers as a personal message from the president talking about the war on terror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and in classic rovian fashion, it is plausibly deniable.  the editors did it, not the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yet another example that crossed my desk. truly, the bush administration is willing to do &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; &#8211; spam, doctored photos, appropriated endorsements from veterans, blocking opposition phone lines and so much more to keep their positions of power. Bush Campaign Acknowledges Ad Was Doctored [reuters, october 28, 2004] President Bush&#8217;s campaign acknowledged on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}