{"id":429138,"date":"2010-03-15T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79208"},"modified":"2010-03-15T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:51:25","slug":"playing-the-slavery-card-against-harry-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429138","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Slavery Card Against Harry Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Brown, the man behind the 1988 Willie Horton ad (and now a conservative activist who&#8217;s on the board of the American Conservative Union) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KJ07OjvXPwQ\">unleashes probably the strangest ad you&#8217;ll see<\/a> hitting Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Keying off a brag that Reid made in one of his own ads &#8212; that he used his power to help casino tycoon James Murren build Las Vegas&#8217;s city center &#8212; Brown attacks Murren&#8217;s partner, Dubai&#8217;s prince Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, for using &#8220;slave labor&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldhum.com\/features\/travel-interviews\/george_saunders_interview_20070831\/\">build his city<\/a>. The claim is sourced to CBS News and Human Rights Watch, but it could just be a vehicle to show voters the very Arabic visage of Al Maktoum.<span id=\"more-79208\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slave labor in Dubai. Union labor in Las Vegas. And both the slave bosses and the union bosses want Harry Reid re-elected!&#8221;<\/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\/KJ07OjvXPwQ\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KJ07OjvXPwQ\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Brown, the man behind the 1988 Willie Horton ad (and now a conservative activist who&#8217;s on the board of the American Conservative Union) unleashes probably the strangest ad you&#8217;ll see hitting Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Keying off a brag that Reid made in one of his own ads &#8212; that he used his power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429138","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=429138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}