{"id":17542,"date":"2014-06-22T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:51:55","slug":"thoughts-on-handling-a-bully-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/06\/22\/thoughts-on-handling-a-bully-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Handling A Bully On TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a really silly exchange that explains why I don&#8217;t watch MSNBC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=3633177520001&#038;playerID=2368596066001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdQ1C14r5oirecGfDLVsGgSQ&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=3633177520001&#038;playerID=2368596066001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdQ1C14r5oirecGfDLVsGgSQ&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"\/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I was thinking of ways that Elizabeth Warren could have handled this.  My first thought was that she could have sat still until he finished his rant and then said &#8220;There, there, do you feel better now?  Can we proceed to having a discussion?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My second thought is that she should have come prepared with a book that she could have visibly held up while starting to read to herself from it, until he stopped.  The title of the book could have been &#8220;How To Handle A Bully&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think would be an effective way to handle situations like this?  If guests come prepared, perhaps we can put a stop to this behavior.  It might work with O&#8217;Reilley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a really silly exchange that explains why I don&#8217;t watch MSNBC. I was thinking of ways that Elizabeth Warren could have handled this. My first thought was that she could have sat still until he finished his rant and then said &#8220;There, there, do you feel better now? Can we proceed to having [&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-17542","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\/17542","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=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}