{"id":21096,"date":"2011-07-19T05:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21096"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:50:53","slug":"making-it-up-as-he-goes-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21096","title":{"rendered":"Making It Up As He Goes Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>100% of sitting presidents seem to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/tatler\/2011\/07\/15\/hi-im-barack-obama-and-i-just-make-stats-up-out-of-nothing\/\">problem with making stuff up as he goes al<\/a>ong.\u00a0 Last week, he claimed 80% of Americans support tax hikes &#8211; which would seem to be an epic turnaround in eight months, if it were true.<\/p>\n<p>If it were true:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where is he getting this 80% figure? How about \u201cout of his hind end.\u201d Gallup doesn\u2019t back him up. Neither does Rasmussen. Gallup gets you closest, but you have do get a little creative with the numbers and even it shows that 50% would prefer a deal with no \u201crevenues\u201d at all (Ras shows 55% on that side).<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s just scattin\u2019 and be-boppin\u2019 and makin\u2019 stuff up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where is Snopes?\u00a0 Politicfact?\u00a0 All of our legions of journalistic &#8220;fact-checkers?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100% of sitting presidents seem to have a problem with making stuff up as he goes along.\u00a0 Last week, he claimed 80% of Americans support tax hikes &#8211; which would seem to be an epic turnaround in eight months, if it were true. If it were true: Where is he getting this 80% figure? How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21110,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096\/revisions\/21110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}