{"id":1668,"date":"2001-11-28T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2001-11-28T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2001-11-28T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2001-11-28T17:49:03","slug":"the_story_of_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/28\/the_story_of_a.html","title":{"rendered":"The story of a story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservative pundits and the Washington Times <\/i>are continuing to keep their spin<\/a> on Clinton’s 7 November speech<\/a> at Georgetown University, even though it has been widely criticized and debunked. Spinsanity offers a new report<\/a> on their efforts. It, and the previous report<\/a>, make fascinating reading.<\/p>\n

Regardless of how you feel about Dubya’s predecessor, and his well-publicized failings (and his successes as well), let’s praise or critique him on what he’s done and said, not on spin of rumors of stories of biased interpretations of out-of-context excerpts of what he’s done and said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservative pundits and the Washington Times are continuing to keep their spin on Clinton’s 7 November speech at Georgetown University, even though it has been widely criticized and debunked. 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