{"id":5663,"date":"2016-10-19T17:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2016-10-19T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:07:17","slug":"sham-journalist-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER SHAM &#8220;JOURNALIST&#8221; AT THE HELM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/views\/2016\/10\/19\/last-debate-how-low-will-it-go\">Richard Eskow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/38015-the-old-debt-and-entitlement-charade\">Dean Baker<\/a> each wonder why Chris Wallace plans to question our two beloved POTUS candidates regarding the national &#8220;debt and entitlements&#8221; despite the fact that Social Ssecurity is forbidden by law from contributing to the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear, as if there could be a moment&#8217;s doubt, that Wallace won&#8217;t be mentioning a word about &#8220;debt and the military budget,&#8221; or &#8220;debt and our very light taxation of\u00a0 the rich and corporations, and our legalized tolerance of tax evasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But hey, Mr. Wallace, how about a few off-the-cuff remarks from you about Fox News and the degradation of journalism in our society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Eskow and Dean Baker each wonder why Chris Wallace plans to question our two beloved POTUS candidates regarding the national &#8220;debt and entitlements&#8221; despite the fact that Social Ssecurity is forbidden by law from contributing to the national debt. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5663\">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-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}