{"id":5225,"date":"2007-10-31T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2007-11-02T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T01:02:01","slug":"wapo-video-john-tanner-is-one-sorry-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5225","title":{"rendered":"WaPo VIDEO: John Tanner is &#8216;One Sorry Man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Snap. <i>Washington Post<\/i> covered <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5222\">yesterday&#8217;s House Judiciary subcommittee hearings<\/a> in two separate articles today and via one hell of an online video to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Milbank covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/30\/AR2007103002179_pf.html\">on page 2<\/a>, opening with &#8220;John Tanner is one sorry man.&#8221; Dan Eggen covered the &#8220;political uproar&#8221; that <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5145\">we kicked off here at The BRAD BLOG<\/a> several weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/30\/AR2007103000653.html\">on page 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s Milbank&#8217;s online &#8220;video sketch&#8221; that cuts to the bone, offering the best first-hand encapsulated coverage of the hearings we&#8217;ve seen to date (far better, even, than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/politics\/july-dec07\/voting_10-30.html\"><em>PBS News Hour&#8217;s<\/em> version last night<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Consider the following montage a &#8220;Must See!&#8221; And one that <i>almost<\/i> makes one begin to feel sorry for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5145\">John &#8220;Minorities Die First&#8221; Tanner<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/mmedia\/player\/wpniplayer_viral.swf?vid=103007-16v_title' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' flashVars='allowFullScreen=true&#038;initVideoId=&#038;servicesURL=http:\/\/www.brightcove.com&#038;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/www.brightcove.com&#038;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&#038;autoStart=false' base='http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com' name='flashObj' width='454' height='305' allowFullScreen='false' allowScriptAccess='always' seamlesstabbing='false' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' swLiveConnect='true' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash'><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;We said &#8220;almost.&#8221; But not by much. A reply to Tanner&#8217;s testimony yesterday &#8212; from an insider still forced to work under him at the DoJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division Voting Section &#8212; to come shortly.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you&#8217;ve yet to see the full smack-downs that Tanner received yesterday at the hands of Reps. Artur Davis (D-AL) and then Keith Ellison (D-MN), the videos of both of those brutal Q&#038;As are posted in full below, and are similarly &#8220;Must Sees!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ScoQ6iyjhGI&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iZTudlibMfQ&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><\/embed><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Snap. Washington Post covered yesterday&#8217;s House Judiciary subcommittee hearings in two separate articles today and via one hell of an online video to boot. Dana Milbank covered on page 2, opening with &#8220;John Tanner is one sorry man.&#8221; Dan Eggen covered the &#8220;political uproar&#8221; that we kicked off here at The BRAD BLOG several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[192,327,223,321,328,172,198,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-artur-davis","category-dept-of-justice","category-john-tanner","category-keith-ellison","category-photo-id-laws","category-us-house","category-washington-post","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}