{"id":419,"date":"2008-06-17T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/bush-slanders-freedom-again\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:53:39","slug":"bush-slanders-freedom-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/bush-slanders-freedom-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Slanders Freedom Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. Bush:\u00a0 &#8220;There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BUSH: &#8220;Of course, <strong>if you want to slander America.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the same tripe Bush has been shoveling ever since the Abu Ghraib photos first surfaced in 2004.\u00a0 Anyone who accurately labels Bush&#8217;s policies slanders America.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there are still some Americans who swallow this crap.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Bush has gotten away with bastardizing American freedom for six years now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that a British journalist had the guts to ask Bush the kind of question that American White House correspondents almost never touch.<\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/16\/bush-critics-of-gitmo-abu-ghraib-and-rendition-are-slandering-america\/\">Think Progress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. 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