{"id":2240,"date":"2012-08-30T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T06:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2012-09-01T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T08:09:17","slug":"rnc-2012-send-in-the-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"RNC 2012: Send In The Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;ve concluded our 2004 RNC retrospective, we&#8217;ll be presenting some highlights from the 2012 Republican National Convention in the sham that is Con-a-thon 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2242\" title=\"RNC2012foxclowns\">It&#8217;s nice to see that Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, had so many &#8230;eh hem&#8230;journalists to cover the proceedings. Edward R. Murrow would sure be proud at the state of modern journalism wouldn&#8217;t he.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2242\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2242\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2242\" title=\"RNC2012foxclowns\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RNC2012foxclowns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RNC2012foxclowns.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RNC2012foxclowns-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, sent several reporters to the Republican National Convention to cover Republican affairs with their special brand of journalistic integrity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;ve concluded our 2004 RNC retrospective, we&#8217;ll be presenting some highlights from the 2012 Republican National Convention in the sham that is Con-a-thon 2012. It&#8217;s nice to see that Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, had so many &#8230;eh hem&#8230;journalists to cover the proceedings. Edward R. Murrow would sure be proud at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RNC 2012: Send In The Clowns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,60,8,3],"tags":[234,50,22,20,389,27,147,4,9,658,21,98,596,296,659,19,645,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}