{"id":3131,"date":"2012-09-03T18:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2012-09-03T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:42:36","slug":"tea-party-must-target-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/tea-party-must-target-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Must Target the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issues matter, and winning matters.  These two things can work against each other from a Tea Party point of view if the media is allowed to keep them aimed at each other.  Therefore, we must work to keep pressure on the media itself, and continually spoil its ability to run interference for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking Obama on issues of substance rarely works for us.  Why?  Because he is insubstantial.  He hardly exists on paper and while we all know what he is against, few would be prepared to tell you what he is for.  This wraith-like figure haunting Washington D.C. has mastered the art of attracting fire without getting hit.<\/p>\n<p>Stop trying to hit Obama, and go after the press instead.  That&#8217;s all Obama is made of anyway, and it is the only way to actually land blows on him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3131\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3131\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues matter, and winning matters. These two things can work against each other from a Tea Party point of view if the media is allowed to keep them aimed at each other. Therefore, we must work to keep pressure on the media itself, and continually spoil its ability to run interference for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking Obama on issues of substance rarely works for us. Why? Because he is insubstantial. He hardly exists on paper and while we all know what he is against, few would be prepared to tell you what he is for. This wraith-like figure haunting Washington D.C. has mastered the art of attracting fire without getting hit.<\/p>\n<p>Stop trying to hit Obama, and go after the press instead. That&#8217;s all Obama is made of anyway, and &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/tea-party-must-target-the-media\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}