{"id":2476,"date":"2008-02-15T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/ron-paul-1988\/2476\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T13:06:29","slug":"ron-paul-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/ron-paul-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Tahoma\" style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>The Morton Downey Jr. Show<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">Morton Downey Jr was the pioneer of trash TV in America&#8230;before Jerry Springer, before Rush Limbaugh, before Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Fox News&#8230;Downey perfected the right wing-screamer &#8220;talk&#8221; program.<\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">Here presidential candidate Ron Paul &#8211; twenty years ago &#8211; tries to rationally discuss US drug laws. Laws which have done nothing but support the illegal drug trade on one side and a massive police state on the other.<\/p>\n<p>As happens today, Paul&#8217;s unorthodox position is shouted down by the ignorant and those with vested interests in seeing the drug trade continue.<\/p>\n<p><\/font>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IHB2I83_N_k[\/youtube]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brasschecktv.com\/page\/276.html\">http:\/\/www.brasschecktv.com\/page\/276.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morton Downey Jr. Show Morton Downey Jr was the pioneer of trash TV in America&#8230;before Jerry Springer, before Rush Limbaugh, before Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Fox News&#8230;Downey perfected the right wing-screamer &#8220;talk&#8221; program.Here presidential candidate Ron Paul &#8211; twenty years ago &#8211; tries to rationally discuss US drug laws. Laws which have done nothing but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-2476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-politics","8":"category-usa-news","9":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}