{"id":140,"date":"2004-10-11T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2004-10-10T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T17:19:38","slug":"if-its-not-a-wire-then-who-is-ws-tailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"If it&#8217;s not a wire, then who is W&#8217;s tailor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1097358613563&#038;call_pageid=968332188854&#038;col=968350060724\">big brouhaha has erupted<\/a> over whether Bush was wired with an earpiece at the most recent presidential debate, to get a little behind-the-scenes help in instances where he might find himself in an oratory jam.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/10\/bush.rumor.ap\/index.html\">GOP laughs the theory off<\/a>, calling the proponents a bunch of conspiracy-theory nuts.<\/p>\n<p>I think W is trying to insult our intelligence:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/wire.jpg\" alt=\"wiremaybe\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If that isn&#8217;t a wire snaking around under his suit, then that has to be the most horribly cut, ill-fitting piece of fabric I have ever seen a free-world leader wear.  Where the hell does the federal government shop for clothes&#8230; Costco?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big brouhaha over whether Bush was wearing an earpiece at the last debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}