{"id":1795,"date":"2007-12-18T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T13:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2007-12-18T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T13:48:29","slug":"counterpunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Counterpunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson counters Ron Paul&#8217;s &#8220;Boston Tea Party&#8221; fundraising effort:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson today, upon hearing that rival Ron Paul\u2019s supporters had raised <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2007\/12\/16\/ron_paul_raises_millions_in_todays_boston_tea_party_event\/\">$6 million<\/a> in 24 hours to commemorate the Boston Tea Party, called on his supporters to match that figure in gun purchases before Christmas to mark George Washington\u2019s victory at the Battle of Trenton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tired of running around the country raising money that I just have to hand over to the same mainstream media companies that ignore my campaign,\u201d said the former senator from Tennessee. \u201cWe\u2019ve done enough this year to support the so-called free press of the first amendment. Let\u2019s give a boost to our friends who make it possible for us to exercise our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071124\/NEWS08\/311240070\">second amendment<\/a> right to keep and bear arms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Fred!\u00a0 That&#8217;ll&#8230;um&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>sigh<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappleface.com\/?p=2825\">If only it weren&#8217;t Scrappleface<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson counters Ron Paul&#8217;s &#8220;Boston Tea Party&#8221; fundraising effort: Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson today, upon hearing that rival Ron Paul\u2019s supporters had raised $6 million in 24 hours to commemorate the Boston Tea Party, called on his supporters to match that figure in gun purchases before Christmas to mark George Washington\u2019s victory at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}