{"id":13811,"date":"2013-05-25T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13811"},"modified":"2013-05-25T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:52:39","slug":"will-the-real-pond-scum-please-stand-up-if-pond-scum-standing-up-is-even-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/05\/25\/will-the-real-pond-scum-please-stand-up-if-pond-scum-standing-up-is-even-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The Real Pond Scum Please Stand Up &#8211; If Pond Scum Standing Up Is Even Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign for U.S. Senator between Ed Markey and Gabriel Gomez seems to have devolved to the pond scum level.<\/p>\n<p>From WBUR, we have <a title=\"WBUR article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/2013\/05\/24\/gomez-markey-pond-scum-line\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gomez Stands By Markey \u2018Pond Scum\u2019 Remark<\/strong><\/a>s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, I\u2019ve got four young kids, and they\u2019ve got to sit there and they gotta see an ad with their dad, who served honorably \u2014 talk to anybody I served with, whether as a pilot or as a SEAL or anybody I\u2019ve worked with \u2014 and for him to be as dirty and low, pond scum, to put me up against bin Laden, he\u2019s gotta be called what he is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had never seen nor heard about the Markey ad until Gabriel Gomez started promoting it in his own ads.&nbsp; I had never bothered to do any research into it, until I read about the pond scum remark today.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the trail I followed to finally find the Markey ad.<\/p>\n<h3>Ex-SEALs slam Obama over leaks on Osama bin Laden<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-VBXUF_oSI?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<h3>Dishonorable Disclosures<\/h3>\n<p>Remember this video when you think of the so-called scandal that Attorney General Holder is looking into reporter&#8217;s phone records to try to see who is making  security leaks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X-Xfti7qtT0?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>To my knowledge, neither the U.S. Government nor the Israeli Government has ever admitted to a connection with the STUXNET virus.  What did the above video just do?<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<h3>Meet Gabriel Gomez: Just Another Republican<\/h3>\n<p>Now we come to the Ed Markey ad.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCoocfTWEyU?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign for U.S. Senator between Ed Markey and Gabriel Gomez seems to have devolved to the pond scum level. From WBUR, we have Gomez Stands By Markey \u2018Pond Scum\u2019 Remarks. You know, I\u2019ve got four young kids, and they\u2019ve got to sit there and they gotta see an ad with their dad, who served [&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-13811","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\/13811","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=13811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13815,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}