{"id":4495,"date":"2008-06-30T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2017-11-11T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:59:58","slug":"anti-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/anti-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/O\/OBAMA_VANDALISM?SITE=MOSTP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">Fla. vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police on Sunday were investigating vandals&#8217; spray-painting of dozens of city vehicles here, some with disparaging messages about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like those racist Republicans, probably on purpose.  But:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They even left business cards on the vehicles that disparage both the Illinois senator and his rival, Republican John McCain. The cards voice support for Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama&#8217;s former opponent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, AP had one of its mysteriously present stringers on the scene:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Lowe, a videographer working for The Associated Press, first told police about the damage. He saw three cars with anti-Obama messages, while the others were just heavily painted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, I thought the headline said <b>sixty<\/b> cars were tagged with anti-Obamaisms.  Truth is, it&#8217;s only 3?<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t anyone report the events without &#8220;hedging&#8221; the language into utter falsehood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fla. vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages: Police on Sunday were investigating vandals&#8217; spray-painting of dozens of city vehicles here, some with disparaging messages about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Sounds like those racist Republicans, probably on purpose. But: They even left business cards on the vehicles that disparage both the Illinois [&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-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","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=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17481,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/17481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}