{"id":41095,"date":"2020-09-11T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41095"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:34:35","slug":"video-thread-9-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/video-thread-9-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Thread 9\/11\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lincoln Project. Breaking a tradition of suspending political advertising on 9\/11 out of respect for the dead &#8230; because this ad pays that respect.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-KLyOuWAzns\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meidas Touch also includes paying respects in their ad.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gvzCT6p0qxo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>VoteVets has made a lovely ad for Doug Jones<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3EY4oXiMhU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is for everyone who is condemning Bob Woodward for not revealing the tapes at the time that he made them. Journalists do know a little something about people &#8211; at least the good ones do.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WHY1YEvH-d8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I often see remarks in comments and even in articles to the tue of &#8220;Democrats need to act more like Republicans,&#8221; and I invariably cringe. Republicans are so corrupt! But they use their corruption to run right over us, and that does need to stop. This is not a new problem (only the names &#8220;Democrat&#8221; and &#8220;Republican&#8221; are new, and, though this will come as a surprise to many if not most people, there is a textbook to teach nice people how to prevail against the corrupt while staying as nice as possible and with a minimum of corruption. That textbook is &#8220;The Prince&#8221; by Niccolo Machiavelli. Yes, I know, you&#8217;ve been trained to think of him as pure evil and his advice as pure corruption. Two groups have a vested interest in keeping you believing that: purity freaks, and Republicans. I know when I first read it I was astonished at how free from malice it was. Here&#8217;s a better explanation than I can give.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GTQlnmWCPgA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lincoln Project. Breaking a tradition of suspending political advertising on 9\/11 out of respect for the dead &#8230; because this ad pays that respect. Meidas Touch also includes paying respects in their ad. VoteVets has made a lovely ad for Doug Jones This is for everyone who is condemning Bob Woodward for not revealing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/video-thread-9-11-2020\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3711,3714],"class_list":["post-41095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gop-crimes","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}