{"id":7619,"date":"2009-12-31T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:32:54","slug":"heads-will-roll-cnn-asks-tough-persistent-questions-of-a-non-democratic-public-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7619","title":{"rendered":"Heads Will Roll?: CNN Asks Tough, Persistent Questions of a (Non-Democratic) Public Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"220\" height=\"182\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t73M2Lysv18&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t73M2Lysv18&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"220\" height=\"182\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"right\"><\/embed><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/classic_tv_moment.php?ref=fpblg\">Josh Marshall at TPM<\/a>: &#8220;Sen. John Ensign goes on CNN to demagogue the terrorism issue and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/12\/ensign_pressed_by_cnn_on_sex-lobbying_scandal.php?ref=fpblg\">gets ambushed with a series of questions he&#8217;s never answered<\/a> about his affair and the ethics investigation surrounding his and his parents efforts to cover it up with lobbying infractions and pay-offs &#8230; Truly must-see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brad at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a>: There must be some confusion here. CNN is asking <i>actual<\/i> and persistently dogged and tough questions of a high-ranking public official, a member of Congress no less, live on TV and everything, like actual journalists or something. And the guy isn&#8217;t even a Democrat! What the?!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall at TPM: &#8220;Sen. John Ensign goes on CNN to demagogue the terrorism issue and gets ambushed with a series of questions he&#8217;s never answered about his affair and the ethics investigation surrounding his and his parents efforts to cover it up with lobbying infractions and pay-offs &#8230; Truly must-see.&#8221; Brad at The BRAD [&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":[19,188,356,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-nevada","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","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=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}