{"id":29811,"date":"2012-08-23T08:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29811"},"modified":"2012-08-23T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:04:18","slug":"paging-betty-mccollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29811","title":{"rendered":"Paging Betty McCollum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Porkulus at work: \u00a0White House <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/08\/22\/labor-department-spent-500g-in-stimulus-funds-on-ads-during-olbermann-maddow\/\">bought &#8220;Green&#8221; program ads on MSNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration paid a PR firm nearly $500,000 in stimulus funds to run a barrage of ads on White House-friendly cable programs promoting its green job training program.<\/p>\n<p>According to government records, the Labor Department paid the money in late 2009 to a company that negotiated a media buy on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Countdown with Keith Olbermann&#8221; and &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show.&#8221; The ad was set to run more than 100 times &#8212; 14 times a week for two months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that Betty McCollum has rid the nation of the scourge of Army ads in NASCAR, this might be another legislative accomplishment!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll make two for her entire 12 year career!<\/p>\n<p>If she does anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porkulus at work: \u00a0White House bought &#8220;Green&#8221; program ads on MSNBC The Obama administration paid a PR firm nearly $500,000 in stimulus funds to run a barrage of ads on White House-friendly cable programs promoting its green job training program. According to government records, the Labor Department paid the money in late 2009 to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29811","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=29811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29813,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29811\/revisions\/29813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}