{"id":31670,"date":"2012-11-06T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31670"},"modified":"2012-11-06T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:29:38","slug":"cutting-out-the-middle-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31670","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Out The Middle Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word has been making the rounds that Obama plans to declare victory late this afternoon &#8211; long before the polls even start closing on the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>If it happens, it&#8217;ll be an attempt to do what the Big Three Networks tried to do for Algore in 2000; declare victory early enough to discourage Republican voters in the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>a Real American, you need to make sure your Republican relatives know what&#8217;s up. \u00a0This is way too important to leave to chance and the ministrations of our in-the-bag major media.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats and the media &#8211; and yes, let&#8217;s cut the crap and recognize they are indistinguishable &#8211; will do whatever it takes to finagle a victory for The One.<\/p>\n<p>Bandwagoneering? \u00a0That&#8217;s nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word has been making the rounds that Obama plans to declare victory late this afternoon &#8211; long before the polls even start closing on the East Coast. If it happens, it&#8217;ll be an attempt to do what the Big Three Networks tried to do for Algore in 2000; declare victory early enough to discourage Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670","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=31670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31672,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions\/31672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}