{"id":5068,"date":"2016-06-10T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2016-06-10T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:20:47","slug":"a-highly-improper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5068","title":{"rendered":"A: HIGHLY IMPROPER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: How improper was AP&#8217;s intervention into the primary process this week?<\/p>\n<p>Writing for Truthout, Williams Rivers Pitt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/36350-how-the-associated-press-screwed-sanders-and-other-tales-from-tuesday-night\">characterizes<\/a> it &#8220;as undemocratic an act as I have ever witnessed after <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em> and the shenanigans in Ohio in 2004, and there will be consequences down the line, especially for Clinton. Good luck bringing Bernie&#8217;s folks into the fold for the big push to November after that crud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary&#8217;s\u00a0 one viable punt would be to select Warren as VP.<\/p>\n<p>I was watching Warren&#8217;s latest takedown of Trump, and thinking, if Obama could speak like this, if he could muster this kind of passionate outrage, if he had Warren&#8217;s stamina to advocate for progressive positions&#8211; and I&#8217;m sorry, if he cared that much&#8211;we would already have been living in a very different country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: How improper was AP&#8217;s intervention into the primary process this week? Writing for Truthout, Williams Rivers Pitt characterizes it &#8220;as undemocratic an act as I have ever witnessed after Bush v. Gore and the shenanigans in Ohio in 2004, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5068\">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-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","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=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}