{"id":2675,"date":"2010-01-28T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2010-01-28T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:39:19","slug":"tea-party-convention-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Convention&#8230;. FAIL!  \/  UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tea%20Party%20Convention....%20FAIL%21%20%20%2F%20%20UPDATE\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>(Originally posted on Jan 18)<\/p>\n<p>For a movement that is supposed to be based on the idea of being\u00a0 fiscally frugal, I&#8217;m not sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/01\/15\/2175393.aspx\">charging double what the other political conventions charge, and filing as a for-profit corporation<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweek.com\/article\/index\/105015\/Palins_Tea_Party_press_ban\">barring news organizations that are not in your pocket ideologically<\/a>, sends the right message. I&#8217;m not accusing anyone of doing anything wrong, it just doesn&#8217;t\u00a0 look good. Sooner or later, this Tea Party movement is going to develop into a true political party, and these actions will come back to bite them.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0\u00a0 Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2010\/01\/sarah-palins-tea-party-dinner-disaster\">that didn&#8217;t take long<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tea%20Party%20Convention....%20FAIL%21%20%20%2F%20%20UPDATE\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>(Originally posted on Jan 18) For a movement that is supposed to be based on the idea of being\u00a0 fiscally frugal, I&#8217;m not sure that charging double what the other political conventions charge, and filing as a for-profit corporation, and barring news organizations that are not in your pocket ideologically, sends the right message. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}