{"id":1648,"date":"2003-07-18T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2003-07-18T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T18:41:00","slug":"payola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/07\/18\/14\/41\/payola\/","title":{"rendered":"Payola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines03\/0714-10.htm\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mokhiber<\/strong>: Ari, in the 2002 election campaign, the Republican Party took in $7.2 million from convicted criminals. Is the President okay with his party taking millions of dollars from convicted criminals? Ari <\/p>\n<p><strong>Ari Fleischer<\/strong>: I have no idea what you are referring to &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mokhiber<\/strong>: I&#8217;m referring to, let me tell you &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Ari Fleischer<\/strong>: Obviously, if money is received &#8211; both parties from people who are later found out to be people who shouldn&#8217;t be giving money &#8211; then it gets returned. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mokhiber<\/strong>: These are actually major corporations convicted of crimes. ADM gave $1.7 million, Pfizer $1.1 million, Chevron $875,000. Is the President okay with those companies giving direct contributions to the Republican Party after being convicted of crimes?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>You too can <a href=\"https:\/\/sawho14.eop.gov\/PERSdata\/intro.htm\">try to ask questions<\/a> of the Thief-in-Chief, but your printout will probably head <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/131404_email18.html\">straight for the shredder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mokhiber: Ari, in the 2002 election campaign, the Republican Party took in $7.2 million from convicted criminals. Is the President okay with his party taking millions of dollars from convicted criminals? Ari Ari Fleischer:&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}