{"id":28720,"date":"2012-07-02T05:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28720"},"modified":"2012-07-01T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:05:43","slug":"much-more-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28720","title":{"rendered":"Much More Of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disease: \u00a0The deference that politicians show the imperial media.<\/p>\n<p>Cure: \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1b8be0; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/30\/gov-christie-to-reporter-are-you-stupid\/\">New Jersey Governor Christie<\/a>, who ate and spat out a reporter at a press conference over the weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reporters were told the governor would only answer questions about a major problem at a water treatment plant, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.<\/p>\n<p>Yet one reporter proceeded to ask an unrelated question involving the state legislature, as seen in video of the press conference from Monmouth County.<\/p>\n<p>Christie, cutting him off, said: &#8220;Did I say on topic? Are you stupid? On topic, on topic. Next question.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have got to find the video. \u00a0And loop it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the reported tried to follow up, the Republican governor again interjected and ended the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you all very much, and I&#8217;m sorry for the idiot over there. Take care,&#8221; he said before walking away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s the hallmark &#8211; and tool &#8211; of someone who isn&#8217;t worried about re-election, one way or the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disease: \u00a0The deference that politicians show the imperial media. Cure: \u00a0\u00a0New Jersey Governor Christie, who ate and spat out a reporter at a press conference over the weekend: Reporters were told the governor would only answer questions about a major problem at a water treatment plant, according to the Newark Star-Ledger. Yet one reporter proceeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720","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=28720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28723,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions\/28723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}