{"id":484810,"date":"2010-03-29T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80778"},"modified":"2010-03-29T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:50:05","slug":"rnc-pushing-back-on-daily-caller-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484810","title":{"rendered":"RNC Pushing Back on Daily Caller Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I waited a little while to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/29\/high-flyer-rnc-chairman-steele-suggested-buying-private-jet-with-gop-funds\/\">Jonathan Strong&#8217;s story<\/a> about &#8212; well, it&#8217;s about two things. Half of the story concerns rumors about Michael Steele&#8217;s lavish wishlist, and half concerns big expenses that appear on the RNC&#8217;s FEC reports, the most eye-popping one being nearly $2,000 at a Los Angeles strip club. It&#8217;s that latter nugget that&#8217;s getting all the attention from the press and from the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>Like other reporters, I&#8217;m told that the RNC is internally investigating its records in response to the story &#8212; the investigation is going on right now. And like other reporters, I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/35148.html\">extremely tough pushback<\/a> &#8212; the committee wants a retraction for the implication that it was Steele himself patronizing the strip club, and it&#8217;s challenging Strong&#8217;s version of his contact with the RNC. (He says he tried to get an interview with Steele; they deny it.) But I don&#8217;t expect the Caller to back down on any other parts of this &#8212; Strong reported this story carefully and has records of his contacts with the RNC sources who, today, are trying to smother the campfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I waited a little while to link to Jonathan Strong&#8217;s story about &#8212; well, it&#8217;s about two things. Half of the story concerns rumors about Michael Steele&#8217;s lavish wishlist, and half concerns big expenses that appear on the RNC&#8217;s FEC reports, the most eye-popping one being nearly $2,000 at a Los Angeles strip club. It&#8217;s [&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-484810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484810","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=484810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}