{"id":8676,"date":"2011-08-16T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2011-08-16T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T23:31:36","slug":"video-jon-stewart-slams-corporate-media-gop-establishment-for-ignoring-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8676","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Jon Stewart Slams Corporate Media, GOP Establishment for Ignoring Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s more obnoxious, the way the Republican Party itself ignores and belittles their own 2012 Presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul &#8212; who reportedly finished a <i>very<\/i> close second to Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is receiving <i>tons<\/i> of attention, in the hopelessly gamed Iowa Straw Poll over the weekend &#8212; or the way the mainstream corporate media ignores and belittles him.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if Paul wasn&#8217;t belittled by these jerks he&#8217;d get no media attention whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>No matter your personal or political feelings about Paul, the way he is treated by the establishment elite, the way <i>they<\/i>, not voters determine who will or won&#8217;t be a &#8220;viable&#8221; candidate, is appalling in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart, <i>appropriately<\/i>, let &#8217;em all have it for that last night, asking incredulously: &#8220;How did libertarian Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:394630\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashVars=\"\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s more obnoxious, the way the Republican Party itself ignores and belittles their own 2012 Presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul &#8212; who reportedly finished a very close second to Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is receiving tons of attention, in the hopelessly gamed Iowa Straw Poll over the weekend &#8212; or the way [&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":[138,400,74,308,46,188,300,273],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-media","category-election-2012","category-iowa","category-jon-stewart","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans","category-ron-paul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","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=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}