{"id":9678,"date":"2012-11-01T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2012-11-01T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:10:59","slug":"the-unspeakable-mendacity-of-mitt-faking-food-donations-for-victims-of-superstorm-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9678","title":{"rendered":"The Unspeakable Mendacity of Mitt: Faking Food Donations for Victims of Superstorm Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First his campaign had VP running mate Paul Ryan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-paul-ryan-soup-kitchen-photos-20121016,0,1568304.story\"><i>pretend<\/i> to work at a soup kitchen<\/a> for a photo op. Then they sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9669\">faked, Photoshopped campaign rally photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of that doesn&#8217;t even speak to Mitt Romney&#8217;s unprecedented campaign of blatant lies.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as if their mendacity to date wasn&#8217;t nearly enough, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mckaycoppins\/the-making-of-romneys-storm-relief-event\">first reported by McKay Coppins at BuzzFeed<\/a>, they exploit a tragedy by <i>pretending<\/i> to be collecting food  &#8212; food that they had already purchased and then gave to attendees at their rally to <i>pretend<\/i> as if they were donating &#8212; for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen anything like this campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc95933b\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49632607^247327^610774&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc95933b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=49632607^247327^610774&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First his campaign had VP running mate Paul Ryan pretend to work at a soup kitchen for a photo op. Then they sent out faked, Photoshopped campaign rally photos. All of that doesn&#8217;t even speak to Mitt Romney&#8217;s unprecedented campaign of blatant lies. Now, as if their mendacity to date wasn&#8217;t nearly enough, as first [&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":[400,584,281,558],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2012","category-hurricane-sandy","category-mitt-romney","category-paul-ryan","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","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=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}