{"id":23830,"date":"2017-01-29T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2017-01-29T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T18:41:20","slug":"chuck-todd-media-knew-but-downplayed-how-much-hillary-was-hated-in-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/01\/29\/chuck-todd-media-knew-but-downplayed-how-much-hillary-was-hated-in-rural-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Todd: Media Knew, But Downplayed, How Much Hillary Was Hated in Rural America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Townhall<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/leahbarkoukis\/2017\/01\/28\/chuck-todd-media-knew-but-downplayed-how-much-hillary-was-hated-in-rural-america-n2277708\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Todd: Media Knew, But Downplayed, How Much Hillary Was Hated in Rural America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cIf we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that\u2019s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, she\u2019s not well-liked in some places in this country in ways that\u2019s times 10 when it comes to Trump,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/ha\/2016\/200\/8bef74b3-1180-4565-a2fc-c3d95577cfd0.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary for prison sign\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Gee, thanks a lot Chuck Todd.  I kept trying to tell the members of the Sturbridge Democratic Town Committee about how much Hillary was disliked, but they refused to believe me.  Of course, they saw those Hillary for Prison signs as much as I did.  I don&#8217;t know why they couldn&#8217;t see the truth for their own eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much my previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/01\/29\/the-data-that-turned-the-world-upside-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Data That Turned the World Upside Down<\/a> explains the difference between what I knew and what some of the other members of the Sturbridge Democratic Town Committee knew.  Perhaps someone was targeting me for that information, and that soemone was not targeting the others on the committee.  The trouble is figuring out if you are being targeted with the truth or targeted with misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall has the article Chuck Todd: Media Knew, But Downplayed, How Much Hillary Was Hated in Rural America. \u201cIf we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that\u2019s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would [&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-23830","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\/23830","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=23830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}