{"id":174,"date":"1996-09-01T18:41:03","date_gmt":"1996-09-01T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=174"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T18:28:15","slug":"paid-political-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Paid Political Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was Sam Smith, writing in his <a href=\"http:\/\/prorev.com\/indexa.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Progressive Review,<\/a> <\/strong>who beautifully characterized the Clinton Mob as &#8220;corporate lawyers with their own air force&#8221;, and nowhere was that more evident than President Bubba&#8217;s seemingly random, shits-and-giggles cruise-missile attacks on Baghdad in the early fall of 1996, right in the midst of his campaign for a second term, and probably for some random made-up &#8220;no-fly zone&#8221; violation or something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/paidpoli.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" title=\"paidpoli550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paidpoli550w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"paidpoli550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paidpoli550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paidpoli550w-85x150.jpg 85w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paidpoli550w-283x499.jpg 283w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paidpoli550w-340x600.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/paidpoli.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">grayscale .jpg image,<\/a> 470kb.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Sam Smith, writing in his Progressive Review, who beautifully characterized the Clinton Mob as &#8220;corporate lawyers with their own air force&#8221;, and nowhere was that more evident than President Bubba&#8217;s seemingly random, shits-and-giggles cruise-missile attacks on Baghdad in the early fall of 1996, right in the midst of his campaign for a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,13,10,9],"tags":[17,1452,1456],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clintontime","category-elections","category-iraq","category-media","category-war-and-peace","tag-clinton","tag-elections","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}