{"id":1961,"date":"2010-08-18T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2010-08-18T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:40:31","slug":"morning-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/morning-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/aug\/16\/opinion\/la-ed-leaks-20100816\">The LA Times makes an interesting observation about our <em>Dear Leader<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[The Obama] administration has pursued a quiet but malicious campaign against the news media and their sources, more aggressively attacking those who ferret out confidential information than even the George W. Bush administration did\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.firstthings.com\/2010\/08\/american-socialists-release-names-of-70-congressional-democrats-in-their-caucus\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gatewaypundit2+%28Gateway+Pundit%29\">American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/this_oughta_teach_him_rQamwIU0sNZxyrmyNBxz4L\">The New York Post notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a move of stunning hypocrisy, the United Federation of Teachers axed one of its longtime employees \u2014 for trying to unionize the powerful labor organization\u2019s own workers, it was charged yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/14\/AR2010081402970.html?hpid=topnews\">democrats to Massachusetts voters: It&#8217;s not the &#8220;Peoples&#8217; Seat&#8221; you peasants! It&#8217;s the Kennedy seat!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times makes an interesting observation about our Dear Leader \u201c[The Obama] administration has pursued a quiet but malicious campaign against the news media and their sources, more aggressively attacking those who ferret out confidential information than even the George W. Bush administration did\u201d American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,52,19,31],"tags":[140,262,511,621,700,717,839],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","category-the-peoples-commonweath","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-massachusetts","tag-politics","tag-scott-brown","tag-socialist","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-vD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}