{"id":342,"date":"2004-06-06T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/mulroney-prime-minister-of-great-britain.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:49:57","slug":"mulroney-prime-minister-of-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/mulroney-prime-minister-of-great-britain.html","title":{"rendered":"The double-life of Brian Mulroney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just flipping through the channels on TV and caught the tail-end of Brian Mulroney reminiscing Ronald Reagan on Larry King Live. When Mulroney was done, Larry King signed him off as &#8220;the former Prime Minister of Great Britain.&#8221; Ouch.<\/p>\n<p> <ins datetime=\"20040607T1107\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> CNN keeps transcripts of all Larry King Live shows and, thankfully, they do not revise them to correct errors. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0406\/06\/lkl.00.html\" title=\"Larry King Live transcript for \"Ronald Wilson Reagan Remembered\" aired on June 6, 2004\"> transcript for the show aired yesterday<\/a> contains the above error:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0406\/06\/lkl.00.html\">\n<p>MULRONEY: Good to see you, Larry. Thank you for having me and delighted to be with you.<\/p>\n<p>KING: My pleasure. Good guy. Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Great Britain (sic).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just flipping through the channels on TV and caught the tail-end of Brian Mulroney reminiscing Ronald Reagan on Larry King Live. When Mulroney was done, Larry King signed him off as &#8220;the former Prime Minister of Great Britain.&#8221; Ouch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Update: CNN keeps transcripts of all Larry King Live shows and, thankfully,&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/mulroney-prime-minister-of-great-britain.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;The double-life of Brian Mulroney&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}