{"id":1603,"date":"2004-10-12T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:23:00","slug":"1603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/12\/1603\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from a Red State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Bill Sammon&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FC1Q6A\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000FC1Q6A&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=398bb5e96363811be545a90e4a3da3b0\" target=\"_new\"><i>Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters<\/i><\/a>, the &#8220;Fly Boy&#8221; chapter about Bush&#8217;s landing on the <i>USS Lincoln<\/i> (you know, the much maligned Mission Accomplished flight):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t safe, the president of the United States would not be doing it,&#8221; Fleischer said.  &#8220;And I remind you it&#8217;s done every day, many times a day, by navy pilots whose mission is to fly on an aircraft carrier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But not all such landings were successful.  Just one month earlier, a Viking skidded off the deck of the USS Constellation.  The two pilots were rescued and the navy was investigating the cause of the mishap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarycity.com\/iraq\/1728331.html\" target=\"_new\">the incident<\/a>.  Lt. Matthew Wilder is the son of my insurance agent.<\/p>\n<p>Whom do you know to thank?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bill Sammon&#8217;s book Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters, the &#8220;Fly Boy&#8221; chapter about Bush&#8217;s landing on the USS Lincoln (you know, the much maligned Mission Accomplished flight): &#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t safe, the president of the United States would not be doing it,&#8221; Fleischer said. &#8220;And I remind you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20941,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/20941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}