{"id":6399,"date":"2008-09-18T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2008-09-18T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:46:15","slug":"boehlert-mccain-and-palin-are-laughing-at-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6399","title":{"rendered":"Boehlert: McCain &#038; Palin are Laughing at the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\">Rather than being cowed by the press&#8217; mini-sermons about truth-telling, McCain and Palin are practically laughing at the press.<\/p>\n<p>Can you blame them? <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nope, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200809160015\">Eric Boehlert explains why<\/a>. After years of having abdicated their Constitutionally-guaranteed role as watchdog for the public, the corporate media&#8217;s too-little, too-late, temporary stint at actually reporting is now regarded as little more than a joke. And one that not even McCain\/Palin feel they need to take seriously. What they&#8217;ve sowed, so shall <i>we<\/i> reap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than being cowed by the press&#8217; mini-sermons about truth-telling, McCain and Palin are practically laughing at the press. Can you blame them? Nope, and Eric Boehlert explains why. After years of having abdicated their Constitutionally-guaranteed role as watchdog for the public, the corporate media&#8217;s too-little, too-late, temporary stint at actually reporting is now regarded [&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":[192,122,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-election-2008","category-mainstream-media-failure","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","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=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}