{"id":227172,"date":"2016-02-26T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=227172"},"modified":"2016-02-26T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:12:09","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-really-give-damn-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/mitch-mcconnell-really-give-damn-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Mitch McConnell Really Give a Damn About the Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 640px; width: 100%;\">Many years ago, I worked on a documentary about the how and why of political TV ads. The primary focus was on two media consultants: the late Bob Squier, a Democrat; and Bob Goodman, Republican.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One ad of which Goodman was especially proud was for a fellow in Kentucky running against Todd Hollenbach, Sr., the incumbent judge\/executive of Jefferson County. Produced in 1977, the spot featured a farmer complaining about taxes that he claimed Judge Hollenbach had raised and then lied about.<\/p>\n<p>As he mucked out a barn and his faithful horse whinnied, the farmer declared, &#8220;Maybe Hollenbach ought to have my job, because in my business, I deal with that kind of stuff every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he threw a shovel of manure right at the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Hollenbach lost to the candidate who approved this message: Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/35000-does-mitch-mcconnell-really-give-a-damn-about-the-supreme-court\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I worked on a documentary about the how and why of political TV ads. The primary focus was on two media consultants: the late Bob Squier, a Democrat; and Bob Goodman, Republican. One ad of which Goodman was especially proud was for a fellow in Kentucky running against Todd Hollenbach, Sr., the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}