{"id":180104,"date":"2017-07-18T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/18\/true-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T23:58:00","slug":"true-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/18\/true-2\/","title":{"rendered":"True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/political-capital\/pussy-riot-founder-says-american-liberals-scapegoat-putin-distract-democrats\">liberals are using Putin as a scapegoat to avoid looking at the problems of the Democratic party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the fact that Putin had her thrown in jail for over a year for their protests of his regime, it is a remarkable statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sirota: Do you believe the American political class and media exaggerate the threat of Putin for its own ends?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Tolokonnikova: Yeah. They&#8217;re just looking for a scapegoat and, you know, for Trump it&#8217;s Muslims and Mexican workers. And for liberal media in America it is Putin.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saying this for <b>how<\/b> long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, is saying that liberals are using Putin as a scapegoat to avoid looking at the problems of the Democratic party. Considering the fact that Putin had her thrown in jail for over a year for their protests of his regime, it is a remarkable &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[374,590,455],"class_list":["post-180104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}