{"id":691793,"date":"2010-03-15T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79330"},"modified":"2010-03-15T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:24:49","slug":"rnc-blacks-out-%e2%80%98paid-for-by-rnc%e2%80%99-line-on-tea-party-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/691793","title":{"rendered":"RNC Blacks Out \u2018Paid for by RNC\u2019 Line on Tea Party Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the &#8220;Take the Town Halls to D.C.&#8221; campaign got a small amount of negative attention for &#8220;LISTEN TO ME!&#8221; signs being distributed to activists by the Republican National Committee. I stopped by the Take the Town Halls HQ today and saw the RNC&#8217;s solution. Here are the old signs:<span id=\"more-79330\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2977.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79331\" title=\"IMG_2977\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2977-480x360.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" alt=\"IMG_2977\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the language at the bottom identifying the RNC as the maker of the sign. But today, the &#8220;LISTEN TO ME!&#8221; signs &#8212; a stack of them were underneath a 2005 Bush-Cheney inauguration bag &#8212; looked like this.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2482\/4435898991_951f2308ab.jpg?resize=481%2C362\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From afar, those blackish stickers fully obscure the RNC label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the &#8220;Take the Town Halls to D.C.&#8221; campaign got a small amount of negative attention for &#8220;LISTEN TO ME!&#8221; signs being distributed to activists by the Republican National Committee. I stopped by the Take the Town Halls HQ today and saw the RNC&#8217;s solution. Here are the old signs: Note the language at [&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-691793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TXX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691793","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=691793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}