{"id":567468,"date":"2010-05-17T22:45:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T02:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78136"},"modified":"2010-05-17T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T02:48:50","slug":"merrick-alpert-calls-blumenthal-a-coward-and-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567468","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Alpert calls Blumenthal &#8220;a coward&#8221; and &#8220;a liar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; \"><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#292727\" face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Alpert, who is also seeking the Democratic Senate nomination, said the Times revelations are &#8220;pretty striking&#8221; and fly in the face of Blumenthal&#8217;s public image.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#292727\" face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); \">&#8220;As a citizen and as candidate, it&#8217;s shocking to see someone who has tried to craft this image of themselves as a fighter, as someone who is willing to always step up and tell the truth, to see him lie about serving in Vietnam,&#8221; Alpert said during a brief phone conversation tonight.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#292727\" face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#292727\" face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">&#8220;He was a coward to go and get five deferments and he&#8217;s clearly a liar for standing up for his own political benefit years later&#8230;It&#8217;s disgraceful behavior from someone who is clearly not qualified to serve in the U.S. Senate.&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#292727\" face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpert, who is also seeking the Democratic Senate nomination, said the Times revelations are &#8220;pretty striking&#8221; and fly in the face of Blumenthal&#8217;s public image. &#8220;As a citizen and as candidate, it&#8217;s shocking to see someone who has tried to craft this image of themselves as a fighter, as someone who is willing to always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567468","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}