{"id":1237,"date":"2004-03-05T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2004-03-05T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2004-03-05T22:38:42","slug":"the-tom-cole-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/03\/05\/the-tom-cole-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tom Cole Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001981\"><\/a>There&#8217;s the liberal media again.  Purposefully misconstruing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktok.com\/cc-common\/feeds\/view.php?feed_id=135&amp;feed=\/local.html&amp;instance=1&amp;article_id=1559\">Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole&#8217;s remarks<\/a> as meaning that electing John Kerry would be like electing Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/002631.html\">Clearly<\/a> what Tom Cole actually <i>means<\/i> is that if Kerry is elected, Saddam Hussein will escape custody, find Osama Bin Laden, and provide him the materials that will have a mushroom cloud over Los Angeles in August of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly that&#8217;s what he meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s the liberal media again. Purposefully misconstruing Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole&#8217;s remarks as meaning that electing John Kerry would be like electing Adolf Hitler. Clearly what Tom Cole actually means is that if Kerry is elected, Saddam Hussein will escape custody, find Osama Bin Laden, and provide him the materials that will have a mushroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}