{"id":66842,"date":"2018-05-18T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66842"},"modified":"2018-05-18T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:17:59","slug":"shot-in-the-dark-todays-news-fifteen-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66842","title":{"rendered":"Shot In The Dark:  Today&#8217;s News Fifteen Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/george-w-bush-image-rehabilitation-media-strategy-to-disparage-trump\/\">Victor Davis Hanson notes something<\/a> that could well become a Berg&#8217;s Law:\u00a0 Republican Presidents are always &#8220;literally Hitler&#8221; until another Republiican is in office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once a Republican president loses an election or retires after two terms \u2014 and is followed by a liberal Democrat \u2014 his reputation hits bottom. But once a new Republican president enters office, the prior and now-powerless Republican ex-president is airbrushed into a model of statesmanship to contrast the ogre currently in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Republican presidencies are seen on a downward spiral of always becoming worse \u2014 by always redefining formerly despised presidents as at least better than their monstrous successors.<\/p>\n<p>When a conservative president has the power to enact a conservative agenda, he is a media demon compared with his now-saintly Republican predecessors. Of course, in retirement, they have no power to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Such reinvention insidiously works to keep former Republican presidents quiet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders what rhetorical wonders await whomever wins the presidency after Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson notes something that could well become a Berg&#8217;s Law:\u00a0 Republican Presidents are always &#8220;literally Hitler&#8221; until another Republiican is in office: Once a Republican president loses an election or retires after two terms \u2014 and is followed by a liberal Democrat \u2014 his reputation hits bottom. But once a new Republican president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66842","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=66842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66865,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66842\/revisions\/66865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}