{"id":10724,"date":"2014-07-21T07:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2014-07-20T22:47:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T05:47:54","slug":"tricky-dick-still-tricking-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=10724","title":{"rendered":"Tricky Dick, Still Tricking Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JFK_RichardNixon_1960.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Citing a related-ish piece of mine last week over at Salon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/19\/debunking_the_rights_enduring_myth_the_truth_about_richard_nixon_and_the_fight_to_overturn_the_1960_election\/\">Paul H. Rosenberg attempted to slay yet another Zombie Myth<\/a> that just won&#8217;t die over the weekend: The myth that JFK &#8220;stole&#8221; the 1960 election from Richard Nixon, and that Nixon was just too much of a gracious statesman to challenge the results.<\/p>\n<p>It is, of course, all bullshit, as Rosenberg is forced to detail once again. Nonetheless, the enduring myth remains part and parcel &#8212; and, often, False Exhibit #1 &#8212; of the very same scam that Republicans still use to this very day in attempting to deligitimize their Democratic opponents through phony claims of &#8220;voter fraud&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a related-ish piece of mine last week over at Salon, Paul H. Rosenberg attempted to slay yet another Zombie Myth that just won&#8217;t die over the weekend: The myth that JFK &#8220;stole&#8221; the 1960 election from Richard Nixon, and that Nixon was just too much of a gracious statesman to challenge the results. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","category-richard-nixon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}