{"id":14042,"date":"2019-03-04T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:32:23","slug":"how-lying-politicians-should-be-treated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/how-lying-politicians-should-be-treated\/","title":{"rendered":"How lying politicians should be treated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters in the US have forgotten how to or have been maneuvered out of doing their jobs. When a politician doesn&#8217;t answer a question, they often just move on to the next question. Here&#8217;s what should happen, and does happen in other places &#8212; like the Netherlands. This is from the David Pakman Show:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MBfkvWaSNKU\">Trump Crony STUNNED When Reporters Call Him Out on Lies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporters in the Netherlands band together and refuse to ask a different question until the politician answers the one that he really doesn&#8217;t want to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters in the US have forgotten how to or have been maneuvered out of doing their jobs. When a politician doesn&#8217;t answer a question, they often just move on to the next question. Here&#8217;s what should happen, and does happen in other places &#8212; like the Netherlands. This is from the David Pakman Show: Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109,32],"class_list":["post-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-journalism","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14043,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions\/14043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}