{"id":189286,"date":"2010-04-23T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/23\/so-now-the-republicans-are-blaming-pr0n-for-the-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:55:00","slug":"so-now-the-republicans-are-blaming-pr0n-for-the-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/23\/so-now-the-republicans-are-blaming-pr0n-for-the-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"So, Now the Republicans are Blaming Pr0n for the Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it is true that senior enforcement personnel at the SEC spent a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lot<\/span> of time downloading pr0n on their PC&#8217;s, this story has been around for years, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/ion\/blog\/item\/financial-regulators-watched-porn-while-economy-spun-into-crisis\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ProPublica<\/span> notes<\/a>, and the reason that it&#8217;s hitting the media spin cycle now is because the Republicans, Darrell Issa specifically, are pushing the story because they want to stop reform.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they want to say that the failures were because of a few bad apples at the SEC, and pr0n is a good way for them to illustrate this, because pr0n attracts the media, and it is a simple narrative, which attracts the incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a win-win for the Republicans who want to side-track reform: It&#8217;s a pretty bauble to distract the press with, and they can claim that it shows that government <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">shouldn&#8217;t<\/span> regulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it is true that senior enforcement personnel at the SEC spent a lot of time downloading pr0n on their PC&#8217;s, this story has been around for years, as ProPublica notes, and the reason that it&#8217;s hitting the media spin cycle now is because the Republicans, Darrell Issa specifically, are pushing the story because they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,974,1064,985,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-regulation","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189286"}],"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=189286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}