{"id":16352,"date":"2014-03-06T21:46:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T02:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16352"},"modified":"2014-03-06T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T02:47:51","slug":"no-money-for-bold-men-the-shame-o-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/06\/no-money-for-bold-men-the-shame-o-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"No Money for Bold Men &#8211; The Shame-O-Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for MardyS for posting this on <a title=\"Facebook posting of these video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mard101\/posts\/10203082504525286\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>his Facebook page<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 These are two video segments from The Daily Show titled <a title=\"The Daily Show segment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-march-5-2014\/no-money-for-bold-men\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>No Money for Bold Men &#8211; The Shame-O-Meter<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here is the summary of the two videos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Twitterverse blasts John Travolta after an Oscars gaffe, but the real national shame belongs to the Senate as Republicans reject a bill expanding veteran benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Senators attempt to attach Iran sanctions to a veteran benefits expansion bill and military sexual assault debates, making the national shame-o-meter go to 11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll include both segments below, less you miss the fact that this doesn&#8217;t just end with the first one.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:433525\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:433526\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Republicans starve government agencies of the necessary funds to do their jobs, and then refuse to give them any more because they couldn&#8217;t work on a starvation diet. It isn&#8217;t even legal to treat prisoners of war like this. Do the Republican Senators think the Veterans Administration is an illegal enemy combatant that isn&#8217;t even due the protections of the Geneva Convention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for MardyS for posting this on his Facebook page.\u00a0 These are two video segments from The Daily Show titled No Money for Bold Men &#8211; The Shame-O-Meter.\u00a0 Here is the summary of the two videos. The Twitterverse blasts John Travolta after an Oscars gaffe, but the real national shame belongs to the Senate as [&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-16352","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\/16352","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=16352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16355,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions\/16355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}