{"id":14211,"date":"2004-04-21T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/ws-credibility-gap\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T02:26:00","slug":"ws-credibility-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/ws-credibility-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"W&#8217;s Credibility Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2004_04_11_archive.html#108194546938115923\" target=\"_blank\">I ranted about W&rsquo;s televised press conference<\/a>, specifically mentioning his complete inability to respond to the question, &ldquo;What would your biggest mistake be&hellip; and what lessons have you learned from it?&rdquo;  I was hoping that someone would address his pathetic attempt to duck this basic question, and I was not disappointed.  I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/mistakesweremade\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">short video entitled &ldquo;Mistakes Were Made&rdquo;<\/a> is a surprisingly subdued response to W&rsquo;s total incompetence, and I agree with the central point it makes: &ldquo;Credibility is on the ballot this November.&rdquo;  I sincerely hope that, among many other things, people take the message of this video to heart when elections are held later this year and realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2098810\/\" target=\"_blank\">W doesn&rsquo;t even know the meaning of the word &ldquo;credibility.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108249895791861658?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I ranted about W&rsquo;s televised press conference, specifically mentioning his complete inability to respond to the question, &ldquo;What would your biggest mistake be&hellip; and what lessons have you learned from it?&rdquo; I was hoping that someone would address his pathetic attempt to duck this basic question, and I was not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/ws-credibility-gap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;W&#8217;s Credibility Gap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}