{"id":11517,"date":"2012-07-10T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:26:20","slug":"bill-moyers-the-cowardly-lions-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/10\/bill-moyers-the-cowardly-lions-of-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Moyers: The Cowardly Lions of Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truth Out<\/em> has Bill Moyers&#8217; video and transcript, <a title=\"Article from Truth Out\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/video\/item\/10236-bill-moyers-the-cowardly-lions-of-free-speech\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill Moyers: The Cowardly Lions of Free Speech<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSpeech is already rationed in America. On your playing field, those who have no money have no speech. And just who do you think is doing this &#8220;speaking&#8221;? Hello, poor people, are you there? It&#8217;s your election, too. All 50 million of you; Hello, we can&#8217;t hear you. Better get a Super Pac and speak up!<\/p>\n<p>Poor people haven&#8217;t lost their voice. They can&#8217;t afford a voice. And every day working people: universal laryngitis, the chronic absence of money. As for children \u2013 children who have a big stake in our elections but no vote \u2013 for them to be heard they would need piggy banks the size of Wal-Mart heirs. Or the Koch brothers for uncles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45207887?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Out has Bill Moyers&#8217; video and transcript, Bill Moyers: The Cowardly Lions of Free Speech. Speech is already rationed in America. On your playing field, those who have no money have no speech. And just who do you think is doing this &#8220;speaking&#8221;? Hello, poor people, are you there? It&#8217;s your election, too. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11518,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/11518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}