{"id":8686,"date":"2011-08-21T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2011-08-21T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:37:31","slug":"creepy-bank-of-america-exec-whispers-well-help-you-out-to-rick-perry-moves-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8686","title":{"rendered":"CREEPY: Bank of America Exec Whispers &#8216;We&#8217;ll Help You Out&#8217; to Rick Perry, Moves On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/19\/300026\/caught-on-tape-bank-of-americas-director-of-public-policy-tells-rick-perry-well-help-you-out\/\">See ThinkProgress for more detail on this<\/a>, but I just wanted to flag this moment as I find it exceedingly creepy, and suspect this is more often than not the way these things happen. The quick handshake, wink, nod and walk away &#8212; Bank of America, in the form of a top national executive, pledges the corporation&#8217;s fealty to a Presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>No need to discuss what the <i>quid pro quo<\/i> will be. No need for Perry to even acknowledge it out loud. It&#8217;s just a 5 second investment by BofA almost certain to pay off should Perry be victorious. Really creepy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1F0RQLFybtw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, ya know, what&#8217;s the big deal? As Gov. Rick Perry&#8217;s current main competitor for the GOP Presidential nomination, Gov. Mitt Romney explained recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8666\">&#8220;Corporations are people, my friend.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See ThinkProgress for more detail on this, but I just wanted to flag this moment as I find it exceedingly creepy, and suspect this is more often than not the way these things happen. The quick handshake, wink, nod and walk away &#8212; Bank of America, in the form of a top national executive, pledges [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,400,281,491],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-election-2012","category-mitt-romney","category-rick-perry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","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=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}