{"id":6193,"date":"2011-06-04T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2011-06-04T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:04:31","slug":"are-they-killing-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/04\/are-they-killing-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Are They Killing Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/guz7l8AjVMM?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/guz7l8AjVMM?version=3\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<p>ActBlue says about the ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHere&#8217;s a snippet of the letter the National Republican Congressional Committee and Charlie Bass sent to TV stations running our new ad in New Hampshire:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    The Advertisement states, in pertinent part, that &#8220;Charlie Bass voted to END Medicare.&#8221; This is completely false&#8230; a vote in favor of the [Paul Ryan] Budget Resolution was a vote to protect Medicare for future seniors.<\/p>\n<p>    We urge you not to ascent to this political ploy&#8230; broadcasting stations are not protected from legal liability for airing a false and misleading advertisement&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it a lie to say the Republicans are ending Medicare and replacing it with something else?<br \/>\nOr is it a lie for the Republicans to say that the replacement of Medicare with something else is preserving Medicare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ActBlue says about the ad: Here&#8217;s a snippet of the letter the National Republican Congressional Committee and Charlie Bass sent to TV stations running our new ad in New Hampshire: The Advertisement states, in pertinent part, that &#8220;Charlie Bass voted to END Medicare.&#8221; This is completely false&#8230; a vote in favor of the [Paul Ryan] [&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-6193","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\/6193","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=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}