{"id":9582,"date":"2011-05-05T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9582"},"modified":"2011-05-06T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:51:23","slug":"total-media-dishonesty-on-ws-ground-zero-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9582\/total-media-dishonesty-on-ws-ground-zero-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Media Dishonesty on W’s Ground Zero Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Daily News carries a shameless story <\/a>today seeking to sow controversy over President Bush’s decision not to join President Obama for today’s ceremony at Ground Zero:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON – George W. Bush won’t be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

“[Bush] viewed this as an Obama victory lap,” a highly-placed source told the Daily News Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bush’s visit to the rubble after the 9\/11 attacks was the emotional high point of his presidency, but associates say the invitation to return with his successor was a non-starter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those of us who served President Bush know that the NYDN’s account has nothing to do with reality. The former president’s ethos, particularly in retirement, has always been to put the needs of the current president — and the nation — above his own. His decision not to\u00a0attend the ceremony was a gesture of respect toward the president who caught Bin Laden, not a snub born of petulance. The Daily News’ anonymous source is unnamed for a reason: he or she is unreliable. The paper should be ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Daily News carries a shameless story today seeking to sow controversy over President Bush’s decision not to join President Obama for today’s ceremony at Ground Zero: WASHINGTON – George W. Bush won’t be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1773,143,491,2498,2659,571,2661,2660],"class_list":["post-9582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-1773","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush","tag-ground-zero","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-twin-towers","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9584,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}