{"id":220,"date":"2006-12-21T22:46:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T03:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/george-w-bush-man-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T22:46:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T03:46:57","slug":"george-w-bush-man-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/george-w-bush-man-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush, MAN OF THE YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Reason.com<\/strong><\/em> is doing a\u00a0feature on Man of the Year. Here&#8217;s my 2 cents:<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush is Man of the Year for vindicating cynics everywhere.\u00a0 Bush\u2019s trumpeting of his illegal wiretaps and his championing of torture should quash mindless idealism about democracy.\u00a0 Bush capped off the year by impaling the Bill of Rights on the Military Commissions Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, few people are giving credit to Bush for teaching Americans that most of what they learned in school about democracy is balderdash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com is doing a\u00a0feature on Man of the Year. Here&#8217;s my 2 cents: George W. 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