{"id":12464,"date":"2012-09-21T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12464"},"modified":"2012-09-21T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:49:16","slug":"the-story-of-the-waiter-and-the-wealthy-scion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/09\/21\/the-story-of-the-waiter-and-the-wealthy-scion\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of the waiter and the wealthy scion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the article and video <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/the-cycle\/49108618\/#49108618\" title=\"MSNBC article\" target=\"_blank\">The story of the waiter and the wealthy scion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKrystal Ball tells viewers the tale of the waiter &#8220;with a small cell phone camera and a whole lot of idealistic chutzpah&#8221; who is responsible for the footage that made the private 47 percent comments public knowledge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc8c6a67\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49108618^1850^155100&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc8c6a67\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=49108618^1850^155100&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I was somewhat disturbed by reading what I thought was the commentator&#8217;s name displayed continuously throughout the clip. &#8220;Krystal Clear&#8221;, come on, what a silly stage name.  Then I realized her &#8220;real&#8221; name was Krystal Ball, I thought well that&#8217;s better, you know like Lucille Ball?  Then I said &#8220;Krystal Ball&#8221; to myself several times, and said, gee that&#8217;s even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thanks to CarolG for emailing me the link to this video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the article and video The story of the waiter and the wealthy scion. Krystal Ball tells viewers the tale of the waiter &#8220;with a small cell phone camera and a whole lot of idealistic chutzpah&#8221; who is responsible for the footage that made the private 47 percent comments public knowledge. I was somewhat [&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-12464","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\/12464","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=12464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12467,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions\/12467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}