{"id":1171,"date":"2004-04-19T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2004-04-19T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T21:24:20","slug":"kerrys-meet-the-press-skull-and-bones-reprisal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/04\/19\/kerrys-meet-the-press-skull-and-bones-reprisal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry’s Meet the Press Skull and Bones Reprisal"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>“NBC News’ Meet the Press”<\/a>, 4-18-04:<\/p>\n

MR. RUSSERT:\u00a0 Before we go, you and George Bush were both members of Skull & Bones, the secret society at Yale.\u00a0 The rule is, if someone mentions Skull & Bones, you walk out of the room.\u00a0 If you’re both in a…<\/p>\n

SEN. KERRY:\u00a0 You trying to get rid of me here?<\/p>\n

MR. RUSSERT:\u00a0 You’re both in a presidential debate and the moderator says “Skull & Bones,” you both leave the podiums?<\/p>\n

SEN. KERRY:\u00a0 I doubt it.<\/p>\n

MR. RUSSERT:\u00a0 You’ll hang in there.<\/p>\n

SEN. KERRY:\u00a0 I think you’ll see both of us have our two–you know I’d love to have a debate with the president right now.\u00a0 There’s so much to talk about for our country.\u00a0 Why not say to our nation, every month, let’s have one debate on health care.\u00a0 Let’s have a debate on foreign policy.\u00a0 Let’s have a debate on education.\u00a0 Let’s really talk to the country the way Lincoln and Douglass and others have historically.\u00a0 Barry Goldwater, as you mentioned, was going to fly around with Jack Kennedy.\u00a0 We can do better for Americans.\u00a0 I’d love to see that happen.<\/i><\/p>\n

Questions and implications of the question dodged yet again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“NBC News’ Meet the Press”, 4-18-04: MR. RUSSERT:\u00a0 Before we go, you and George Bush were both members of Skull & Bones, the secret society at Yale.\u00a0 The rule is, if someone mentions Skull & Bones, you walk out of the room.\u00a0 If you’re both in a… SEN. KERRY:\u00a0 You trying to get rid of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}