{"id":657597,"date":"2010-02-08T04:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65728"},"modified":"2010-02-08T04:30:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T09:30:58","slug":"america%e2%80%99s-most-influential-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657597","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Most Influential Think Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65729\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 127px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-65729\" title=\"taxi2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/taxi2-117x150.jpg?resize=117%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">All the journalists really are talking to him<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, during lulls in Puppy Bowl VI I caught some of the pre-Super Bowl festivities on CBS.  And for the second straight straight year President Obama was interviewed by a television anchor, this time Katie Couric.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, how Katie managed to concern troll like a true Villager &#8212; via the same source used so long and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6184114n&amp;tag=mncol;lst;1\">reliably by Tom Friedman<\/a> (paraphrase, but close):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Mr. President, I just talked to a cab driver who says he&#8217;s scared to death of the Deficit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing how many cab drivers end up sounding like David Broder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65728&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_65728\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the journalists really are talking to him Yesterday, during lulls in Puppy Bowl VI I caught some of the pre-Super Bowl festivities on CBS. And for the second straight straight year President Obama was interviewed by a television anchor, this time Katie Couric. And, oh, how Katie managed to concern troll like a true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L4p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}