{"id":5061,"date":"2016-06-07T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:50:37","slug":"broadcast-media-hitler-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5061","title":{"rendered":"OUR BROADCAST MEDIA WOULD HAVE GOTTEN HITLER THE NOMINATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard North Patterson at Huffington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/richard-north-patterson\/too-sick-to-lead-the-leth_b_10086768.html\">flails<\/a> their elevation of Trump and tenacious attempt to normalize an obviously deeply disturbed personality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have countenanced lie upon lie; recast his disturbed behavior as strategic genius; marveled at the immunity from his own vacuity and vulgarity that they have helped create. Even more than Trump himself, they have thrust &#8216;Trump&#8217; upon a confused and vulnerable country. By doing so, have disgraced themselves and betrayed their obligations to the rest of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard North Patterson at Huffington Post flails their elevation of Trump and tenacious attempt to normalize an obviously deeply disturbed personality. &#8220;They have countenanced lie upon lie; recast his disturbed behavior as strategic genius; marveled at the immunity from his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}