{"id":682876,"date":"2010-03-04T18:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78450"},"modified":"2010-03-04T18:43:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:43:34","slug":"tea-parties-to-rnc-hey-nice-pander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682876","title":{"rendered":"Tea Parties to RNC: Hey, Nice Pander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjy Sarlin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-03-04\/ticking-off-the-tea-party-crowd\/\">talks to Tea Party leaders<\/a> &#8212; the type of people who were supposed to be the targets of RNC fundraising appeals discussed in a leaked 72-page document on how to bring in more cash &#8212; and finds a lot of irritation. Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation gets at the heart of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They freaking don\u2019t get it. Our motives are patriotic. Can they be any more insulting? I guess they could have called us teabaggers, but Holy Cow, I\u2019m so blown away by the whole thing I\u2019m just sitting here stunned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjy Sarlin talks to Tea Party leaders &#8212; the type of people who were supposed to be the targets of RNC fundraising appeals discussed in a leaked 72-page document on how to bring in more cash &#8212; and finds a lot of irritation. Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation gets at the heart of it: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"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-682876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RE8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682876","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\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}