{"id":1944,"date":"2005-10-21T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T19:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2005-10-21T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T19:37:16","slug":"video-tom-delays-first-day-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Tom Delay&#8217;s First Day in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakahiru-me.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_delay_in_court_051021a.ram\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/msnbc\/msnbc_delay_in_court_051021a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakahiru-me.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_delay_in_court_051021a.ram\">Streaming Video in Real Media format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakahiru-me.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_delay_in_court_051021b.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as he did for his <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00001938.htm\">mugshot<\/a> yesterday, Rep. Tom DeLay continued to smile throughout his first day of court today. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the media, DeLay said, &#8220;You may be surprised to hear this from me today but I find this is a very good day.&#8221; We are pleased that DeLay appreciates spending time in court and sincerely hope that he continues to enjoy much more of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s court appearance was little more than an opportunity for DeLay&#8217;s legal team to spin the charges against him as partisan. What is most striking is the lack of voices in the media to balance DeLay&#8217;s spin. Even so, it was a day long anticipated and every moment of the process may be worth savoring.<\/p>\n<p>We have put together some video highlights from CNN, MSNBC and FOX News as they were broadcast live this morning. How do you rate the media&#8217;s coverage of this event?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards Streaming Video in Real Media format&#8230; Video in Windows Media format&#8230; Just as he did for his mugshot yesterday, Rep. Tom DeLay continued to smile throughout his first day of court today. In a statement to the media, DeLay said, &#8220;You may be surprised to hear this from me today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}