{"id":14585,"date":"2011-12-02T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14585"},"modified":"2011-12-03T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T19:12:28","slug":"republican-primary-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14585","title":{"rendered":"Republican Primary Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting; there&#8217;s a little hyperbole in it, but the basic point &#8212; that FOX is by far the most important news source for the majority of conservatives, and how that network reports the candidates could change the outcome of the Republican primary &#8212; seems plausible. And that, it turn, makes the possibility of Newt being the Republican nominee seem more plausible.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"575\" height=\"335\" id=\"msnbc7ea013\" 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=45518225&amp;width=575&amp;height=335\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc7ea013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"575\" height=\"335\" FlashVars=\"launch=45518225&amp;width=575&amp;height=335\" 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><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Use this thread to discuss the GOP primary, or the upcoming Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Video corrected. :-p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting; there&#8217;s a little hyperbole in it, but the basic point &#8212; that FOX is by far the most important news source for the majority of conservatives, and how that network reports the candidates could change the outcome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14585\">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":[135,27,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-elections-and-politics","category-fox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14591,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14585\/revisions\/14591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}