{"id":198,"date":"2003-11-23T02:41:53","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T07:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/interesting_observation\/"},"modified":"2003-11-23T02:41:53","modified_gmt":"2003-11-23T07:41:53","slug":"interesting_observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/interesting_observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time CBS news producer Don Hewitt describes the famous Kennedy\/Nixon debate as the worst night in American political history.<br \/>\nWhy?  Because it was then politicians realized that they couldn&#8217;t win elective office without being on T.V.  Since it takes lots of money to get on T.V., this has made politicians beholden to lobbyists and forces them to spend a huge amount of time fund raising.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, this is more true now than ever.  Just take a look at who would be the greatest corporate beneficiaries under the proposed Energy and Medicare bills.  Any coincidence that those companies are free-spending campaign contributors with an entrenched lobbyist network?<br \/>\nI think not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/interesting_observation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Interesting Observation\"><p>Long-time CBS news producer Don Hewitt describes the famous Kennedy\/Nixon debate as the worst night in American political history. Why? Because it was then politicians realized that they couldn&#8217;t win elective office without being on T.V. Since it takes lots of money to get on T.V., this has made politicians beholden to lobbyists and forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}