{"id":15893,"date":"2011-08-15T15:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:20:36","slug":"roger-simon-ron-paul-remains-media-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15893","title":{"rendered":"Roger Simon: Ron Paul remains media poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/reporters\/RogerSimon.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">ROGER SIMON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I admit I do not fully understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/2012-election\/ron-paul\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul<\/a> and his beliefs. But I do understand when a guy gets shafted, and Ron Paul just got shafted.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Ames Straw Poll was conducted in Iowa amid huge media interest and scrutiny. The results were enough to force one Republican candidate, Tim Pawlenty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0811\/61337.html\" target=\"_blank\">out of the race<\/a>, and catapult another, Michele Bachmann, into the \u201ctop tier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0811\/61412.html#ixzz1V8PR4Gkq\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Ron Paul remains media poison&#8221; by Roger Simon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ROGER SIMON I admit I do not fully understand Ron Paul and his beliefs. But I do understand when a guy gets shafted, and Ron Paul just got shafted. On Saturday, the Ames Straw Poll was conducted in Iowa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-48l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15894,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/15894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}