{"id":74706,"date":"2012-05-14T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=74706"},"modified":"2012-05-14T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:54:51","slug":"the-gay-marriage-endorsement-was-all-about-hollywoods-money-and-obamas-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=74706","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Marriage Endorsement Was All About Hollywood&#8217;s Money and Obama&#8217;s Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/timstanley\/100157393\/if-you-want-to-know-why-obama-endorsed-gay-marriage-follow-the-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s the problem with the press coverage of Barack Obama: the mainstream media is so overwhelmed by his charisma that they often miss the important details. Every decision, speech, policy statement or impromptu visit to the bathroom is presented as a piece of \u201chistory\u201d \u2013 the dawn of a new era. The Prez could go seal-clubbing and much of the media would see it as a new epoch for winter sports. \u201cBarack Obama Becomes the First President to Kill Six Seals in Under One Minute,\u201d the New York Times would proudly report, while Twitter would be all abuzz with how hot he looks in snow shoes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even Brits can see the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So on Monday, Obama was losing dollars on the Hollywood fundraising circuit. On Wednesday, he endorsed gay marriage.\u00a0On Thursday, he flew to Hollywood for a fundraiser, where 150 donors paid $40,000 each to meet the Prez at the home of George Clooney. Coincidence?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barack Obama, candidate of the 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Here\u2019s the problem with the press coverage of Barack Obama: the mainstream media is so overwhelmed by his charisma that they often miss the important details. Every decision, speech, policy statement or impromptu visit to the bathroom is presented as a piece of \u201chistory\u201d \u2013 the dawn of a new era. The Prez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74708,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions\/74708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}