{"id":169552,"date":"2015-07-30T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=169552"},"modified":"2015-07-30T21:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:56:31","slug":"money-white-blood-american-politics-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/money-white-blood-american-politics-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Money is the white blood of American politics: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">American journalist Jim W. Dean says money is the white blood of American politics, that is why the billionaire Koch brothers have invited four top Republican presidential candidates to see who deserves their economic blessings more. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Dean, a managing editor and columnist based in Atlanta, made the remarks on Thursday, when Press TV asked for his views about the generous contributions that presidential hopefuls in the United States receive from the wealthy and multi-billion dollar corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cThere is an old American political saying &#8211; something kind of a joke &#8211; that we have the best democracy that money can buy,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cKoch brothers [are] publically putting $1 billion on the line to literally try to buy a Republican presidential candidate that they feel is not best for the country but best serves their interests,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cThe money is the white blood of American politics,\u201d he noted. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">According to a report, the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch planning to spend nearly $1 billion in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election have invited Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker to have a chance at their blessing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">A recent study&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/30\/422578\/Money-white-blood-US-politics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American journalist Jim W. Dean says money is the white blood of American politics, that is why the billionaire Koch brothers have invited four top Republican presidential candidates to see who deserves their economic blessings more. \u00a0 Dean, a managing editor and columnist based in Atlanta, made the remarks on Thursday, when Press TV asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}