{"id":2518,"date":"2009-02-11T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:08:54","slug":"rep-eric-cantors-r-va-office-has-a-little-problem-with-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/11\/rep-eric-cantors-r-va-office-has-a-little-problem-with-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Cantor&#8217;s (R-Va) Office Has a Little Problem With Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/stimulus-package\/gop-leadership-response-video-depicting-afscme-members-as-goons\/\">Greg Sargent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to make the big unions very happy. GOP House leader <a href=\"http:\/\/whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Eric_Cantor\"> Eric Cantor<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office has come up with an intriguing response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/stimulus-package\/obama-allies-launch-new-ad-directly-attacking-gop-leaders-white-house-told-in-advance\/\"> AFSCME ad bllitz<\/a> targeting GOP leaders: Sending over a video that portrays AFSCME union members as 1970s-era goons.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor spokesperson Brad Dayspring emails me the vid, stressing that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meant as a joke:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I think that&#8217;s a pretty funny parody.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw it sometime last year, and might have even passed it along.\u00c2\u00a0 But you know who I&#8217;m not and what I wasn&#8217;t doing?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not the spokesman for a member of the GOP leadership, and I wasn&#8217;t sending to the press as a response to a legitimate issue ad.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Cue Republican whining in 3, 2, 1 . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Greg Sargent: This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to make the big unions very happy. GOP House leader Eric Cantor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office has come up with an intriguing response to the AFSCME ad bllitz targeting GOP leaders: Sending over a video that portrays AFSCME union members as 1970s-era goons. Cantor spokesperson Brad Dayspring emails me the vid, stressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[67,497,68,502],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia","tag-eric-cantor","tag-politics","tag-union","tag-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}