{"id":30080,"date":"2022-07-11T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30080"},"modified":"2022-07-11T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:10:46","slug":"media-trying-to-make-the-greitens-thing-happen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/11\/media-trying-to-make-the-greitens-thing-happen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Trying To Make The Greitens Thing Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, the media and its friends have picked the weakest candidate for the general election for Senate in the state of Missouri, and, now, they&#8217;re pumping him for all its worth to try to get him to win the primary<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2022\/07\/10\/greitens-fans-shrug-off-scandals-threatening-gop-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eric Greitens resigned as Missouri governor amid criminal charges and legislative investigations, is accused by his ex-wife of abuse and bullying, and has run a widely condemned ad suggesting he was hunting members of his own party with a gun. And the Republican is still a leading contender for election to the U.S. Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, no.  And by &#8220;Yeah, no,&#8221; I mean, <em>I really hope not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s worked before: Claire McCaskill <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/donald-trump-the-mccaskill-manipulation-goes-national\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">bragged that she got Todd Akin onto the ballot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez, I hope it does not work again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, the media and its friends have picked the weakest candidate for the general election for Senate in the state of Missouri, and, now, they&#8217;re pumping him for all its worth to try to get him to win the primary Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat Eric Greitens resigned as Missouri governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080","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=30080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30081,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions\/30081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}