{"id":2653,"date":"2005-09-08T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:24:40","slug":"campaign-finance-for-the-unreformed-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/campaign-finance-for-the-unreformed-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Finance for the Unreformed &#8211; Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of the other things you get when <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=2005-09-07T155338Z_01_MAR757142_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-GERMANY-ANARCHISTS.XML&#038;archived=False\" target=\"_new\">government pays for political advertising<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fringe German anarchist party has outraged national television audiences with its election campaign television spot &#8212; a video montage of booze-fuelled chaos, syringes and men cavorting with topless women.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Rather than offer any presentation of policies, the party&#8217;s campaign spot spliced together scenes of debauched revellers smashing furniture, pouring beer down each other&#8217;s throats and groups of couples kissing and groping each other, all set to a frantic heavy metal soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>As an officially registered political party, the Hamburg-based APPD, which sells t-shirts on its Web site that proclaim &#8220;Arbeit ist Scheisse&#8221; (&#8220;work is shit&#8221;), is <b>entitled to free television air time for its advertisements<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course this group is approved.  Although embarrassing, it is no real threat to the established order.  Anything else simply isn&#8217;t government-approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of the other things you get when government pays for political advertising: A fringe German anarchist party has outraged national television audiences with its election campaign television spot &#8212; a video montage of booze-fuelled chaos, syringes and men cavorting with topless women. &#8230; Rather than offer any presentation of policies, the party&#8217;s campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19230,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/19230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}