{"id":1898,"date":"2006-02-21T01:28:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/white_house_admission_cost\/"},"modified":"2006-02-21T01:28:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T06:28:43","slug":"white_house_admission_cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/02\/white_house_admission_cost\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Admission Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ex-Malaysian Leader Says He Paid Abramoff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2006\/02\/20\/international\/i210516S41.DTL\">Interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid $1.2 million to organize his 2002 meeting with President Bush, but denied the money came from the Malaysian government.<br \/>\nMahathir told reporters he was aware a payment was made to Abramoff, but he didn&#8217;t know who made it. He said he had been persuaded by the U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation to meet with Bush at the time.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nMahathir said the Heritage Foundation believed he could help &#8220;influence (Bush) in some way regarding U.S. policies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(1)  I hope a Lincoln Bedroom stay was available at that price level.<br \/>\n(2)  Either someone has a lot of money to throw around or Abramoff could make a convincing case that he had an &#8220;in&#8221; at the White House.<br \/>\n(3)  Why does a foreign prime minister need to hire a lobbyist, anyway?<br \/>\n(4)  Odd that Mahathir didn&#8217;t know where the money came from in this purported transaction.<br \/>\n(5)  Nice to see the Heritage Foundation keeping busy looking out for us, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/02\/white_house_admission_cost\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to White House Admission Cost\"><p>Interesting: Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid $1.2 million to organize his 2002 meeting with President Bush, but denied the money came from the Malaysian government. Mahathir told reporters he was aware a payment was made to Abramoff, but he didn&#8217;t know who made it. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}