{"id":3127,"date":"2008-05-02T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2008-05-02T05:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:59:06","slug":"peter-dreier-sidney-blumenthal-uses-right-wing-foes-to-attack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"Peter Dreier: Sidney Blumenthal Uses Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Dreier, Huffington Post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-dreier\/sidney-blumenthal-uses-fo_b_99695.html\">1 May 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton White House where he worked as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now acting as a senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is exploiting that same right-wing network to attack and discredit Barack Obama. And he&#8217;s not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-dreier\/sidney-blumenthal-uses-fo_b_99695.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dreier, Huffington Post, 1 May 2008 Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3127\">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-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","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=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}