{"id":4810,"date":"2007-07-12T22:18:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2007-07-13T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T14:28:29","slug":"video-clinton-edwards-anti-democratic-remarks-caught-on-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4810","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Clinton &#038; Edwards&#8217; Anti-Democratic Remarks Caught On Tape by Fox &#8216;News&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YKbv5Wj_bzM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"left\"><\/embed>Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are caught on tape today at the NAACP Democratic presidential candidates forum seemingly making anti-democratic comments about shrinking the democratic field in future debate settings. (<i>Video available at left.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Fox &#8220;News&#8221;, who filed the report during Brit Hume&#8217;s <i>Special Report<\/i> on Thursday, included sub-titles for the &#8220;overheard&#8221; post-forum conversation between Clinton and Edwards. They also managed to get in several cheapshots against a number of other Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>As subtitled by Fox during the video clip, the exchange between Clinton and Edwards purportedly went as follows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>JOHN EDWARDS:<\/b> &#8230;at some point&#8230;(<em>unintelligible<\/em>)&#8230;maybe the Fall&#8230;We should try to have&#8230;a more serious and a smaller group.<\/p>\n<p><b>HILLARY CLINTON:<\/b> Well&#8230;we&#8230;we&#8217;ve got to cut the number&#8230;because they are&#8230;because they are just being trivialized.<\/p>\n<p><b>EDWARDS:<\/b> &#8230;and they&#8217;re&#8230;they&#8217;re not serious. They&#8217;re not serious.<\/p>\n<p><b>CLINTON:<\/b> No&#8230;you know&#8230;I&#8230;I&#8230;I think there was an effort by our campaigns to do that. It got&#8230;it got somehow&#8230;detoured.  We&#8217;ve gotta get back to it&#8230;because that&#8217;s all we&#8217;re going to do between now and then is that&#8230;(<em>Barack Obama walks over<\/em>)&#8230;thanks, Barack. (<em>Obama walks away<\/em>) So&#8230;we&#8230;us&#8230;(<em>Dennis Kucinich walks over<\/em>) thanks, Dennis (<em>Kucinich walks away<\/em>)&#8230;our guys should talk.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are caught on tape today at the NAACP Democratic presidential candidates forum seemingly making anti-democratic comments about shrinking the democratic field in future debate settings. (Video available at left.) Fox &#8220;News&#8221;, who filed the report during Brit Hume&#8217;s Special Report on Thursday, included sub-titles for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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":[239,278,122,14,226,62],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-dennis-kucinich","category-election-2008","category-fox-news","category-hillary-clinton","category-john-edwards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}