{"id":195791,"date":"2008-06-13T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/13\/press-buying-into-republican-meme-again\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:28:00","slug":"press-buying-into-republican-meme-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/13\/press-buying-into-republican-meme-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Buying Into Republican Meme Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans are saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=a9UgUJQUGwq0\">Barack Obama risks his squeaky clean image if he opts out of public financing<\/a>, and the press is eating it up.<\/p>\n<p>I call bull$#.  John McCain is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">currently in felony violation of the law that he wrote<\/span>, and so it&#8217;s clear that he cannot be trusted, and this is what the Obama campaign should be saying, albeit as background, to reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans are saying that Barack Obama risks his squeaky clean image if he opts out of public financing, and the press is eating it up. I call bull$#. John McCain is currently in felony violation of the law that he wrote, and so it&#8217;s clear that he cannot be trusted, and this is what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195791"}],"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=195791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}