{"id":474143,"date":"2010-03-26T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=75210"},"modified":"2010-03-26T07:47:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:47:35","slug":"early-morning-swim-republicans-blame-democrats-for-recent-violence-claim-to-be-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474143","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Republicans Blame Democrats for Recent Violence, Claim to be Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"211\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Zqev8iLtJVg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Zqev8iLtJVg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"350\" height=\"211\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/davidknowles\/2010\/03\/26\/police-cantors-office-wasnt-a-target-of-violence\/\">Eric Cantor is a lying liar.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>According to police, Eric Cantor was mistaken. His staff office in  Richmond, Va. was not targeted by political extremists as he claimed  earlier today with so much partisan pizazz. Instead, a bullet fired into  the air at 1 a.m. on Tuesday happened to fall at just such a trajectory  that it punctured the office\u2019s front window and fell some inches from  it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police  in Richmond said late Thursday that bullet was fired randomly, and  that Cantor\u2019s office was in no way the target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll issue a retraction today, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/early-morning-swim\/\" rel=\"tag\">Early Morning Swim<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Republicans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=75210&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_75210\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Eric Cantor is a lying liar. According to police, Eric Cantor was mistaken. His staff office in Richmond, Va. was not targeted by political extremists as he claimed earlier today with so much partisan pizazz. Instead, a bullet fired into the air at 1 a.m. on Tuesday happened to fall at just such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474143","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}