{"id":271603,"date":"2010-02-03T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75671"},"modified":"2010-02-03T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:00:10","slug":"the-committee-for-truth-in-politics-pre-emptively-attacks-wall-street-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271603","title":{"rendered":"The Committee for Truth in Politics Pre-Emptively Attacks Wall Street Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0210\/Luntzscripted_ad_also_airing_in_Montana.html?showall\">great<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0210\/Ad_attacks_big_bank_bailout_bill.html\">catches<\/a> by Ben Smith &#8212; and more by his commenters &#8212; reveal that the little-known Committee for Truth in Politics is running ads that frame proposed financial regulatory reform as, paradoxically, &#8220;one big bailout&#8221; for banks. The ads are running in Pennsylvania, Montana, North Dakota and Colorado, and they crystallize <a href=\"http:\/\/bachmann.house.gov\/news\/email\/show.aspx?ID=POX32QCJTVMWS2PDVQZLU7GXKA\">an attack that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) made against the House&#8217;s version of reform<\/a>, passed in December: that it was a &#8220;permanent bailout bill&#8221; because it created a closely regulated fund that could be tapped for future bank emergencies. (Frank Luntz used crisper language in a memo to Republicans.)<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-75671\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ad:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8xANMUnNnf0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8xANMUnNnf0\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two great catches by Ben Smith &#8212; and more by his commenters &#8212; reveal that the little-known Committee for Truth in Politics is running ads that frame proposed financial regulatory reform as, paradoxically, &#8220;one big bailout&#8221; for banks. The ads are running in Pennsylvania, Montana, North Dakota and Colorado, and they crystallize an attack that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}