{"id":11889,"date":"2012-08-10T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11889"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:26:42","slug":"mr-romney-hits-bottom-on-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/10\/mr-romney-hits-bottom-on-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Romney Hits Bottom on Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader RichardH sent me the link to <em>The New York Times<\/em> editorial, <a title=\"The New York Times editorial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/09\/opinion\/mr-romney-hits-bottom-on-welfare.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mr. Romney Hits Bottom on Welfare<\/strong><\/a>, as a response to my previous post <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/08\/romneys-welfare-to-work-attack-on-obama-not-quite-accurate-experts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Romney\u2019s welfare-to-work attack on Obama not quite accurate, experts say<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The New York Times<\/em> editorial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign has hit new depths of truth-twisting with its accusation that President Obama plans to \u201cgut welfare reform\u201d by ending federal work requirements. The claim is blatantly false, but it says a great deal about Mr. Romney\u2019s increasingly desperate desire to define the president as something he is not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My confirmation bias likes this editorial.<\/p>\n<p>I do sometimes wonder how the media can say things are &#8220;not quite accurate&#8221;,\u00a0 &#8220;depths of truth-twisting&#8221;, &#8220;claim is blatantly false&#8221;, and still not be able to simply say &#8220;it is a lie&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader RichardH sent me the link to The New York Times editorial, Mr. Romney Hits Bottom on Welfare, as a response to my previous post Romney\u2019s welfare-to-work attack on Obama not quite accurate, experts say. From The New York Times editorial: Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign has hit new depths of truth-twisting with its accusation that President [&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-11889","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\/11889","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=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11891,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions\/11891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}