{"id":2276,"date":"2009-01-13T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2009-01-13T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:40:52","slug":"small-victories-for-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/13\/small-victories-for-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Victories for Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (D-VT) <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/01\/smithsonian_agrees_to_revise_bush_portrait_caption.php\">letter paid off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [Smithsonian&#8217;s new portrait of George W. Bush&#8217;s] caption, describing the Bush era, originally said that the 9\/11 attacks &#8220;led to&#8221; the war in Iraq. After Sanders pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/140133_bushiraq18.html\">the obvious flaw<\/a> in that causal correlation &#8212; Iraq had nothing to do with 9\/11 &#8212; Sullivan replied: &#8220;Our intention was to remind viewers of the portrait that the listed events were defining moments in the Bush presidency, within the limited space of an object label. I appreciate your concern, however, about the words &#8216;led to.&#8217; We will revise the label and delete the words &#8216;led to.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That this is noteworthy says much about the state of the country.\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;s an encouraging start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (D-VT) letter paid off: The [Smithsonian&#8217;s new portrait of George W. Bush&#8217;s] caption, describing the Bush era, originally said that the 9\/11 attacks &#8220;led to&#8221; the war in Iraq. After Sanders pointed out the obvious flaw in that causal correlation &#8212; Iraq had nothing to do with 9\/11 &#8212; Sullivan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}