{"id":17690,"date":"2018-09-16T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17690"},"modified":"2018-09-16T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:37:07","slug":"worth-pointing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/09\/16\/worth-pointing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"worth pointing out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really wish I had noted something about Maria Butina at the time her story about being an alleged honeypot for the Russians in ensnaring the NRA and NRA backed politicos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; which was that the story her lawyer professed on NPR&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>of a maybe naive Russian right wing populist Putin lover who wanted to expand a gun culture from America to Russia and so circled in those circles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and who could get a little cheeky with her texting for easy misinterpretations.<\/p>\n<p>Actually did indeed sound credible.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s because of some books on modern Russian culture I&#8217;ve been reading that allows me to identify her as a &#8220;type&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As it were, this charge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2018\/9\/11\/headlines\/prosecutors_admit_they_wrongly_accused_maria_butina_of_trading_sex_for_influence\">has been dropped<\/a>, and the wacky hijinx of the sensationalist story that has everything Trump era liberals have as a boogey man and fits into assumptions of targeted enemies&#8230; remains in the archives of Stephen Colbert and &#8220;NRA is awfully silent&#8221; stories that pop up at the top when you look up her name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really wish I had noted something about Maria Butina at the time her story about being an alleged honeypot for the Russians in ensnaring the NRA and NRA backed politicos&#8230; &#8230; which was that the story her lawyer professed on NPR&#8230; of a maybe naive Russian right wing populist Putin lover who wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17690","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=17690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17691,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17690\/revisions\/17691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}