{"id":4913,"date":"2005-08-07T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4913.html"},"modified":"2005-08-07T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T13:40:54","slug":"sunday-discussion-group-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-discussion-group-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard an interview the other day in which a conservative insisted that Hillary Clinton couldn’t appeal to a national audience in large part because she pushed a plan for “socialized medicine” in the early ’90s. Anyone who was even passively familiar with Clinton’s proposal had to realize that this is a ridiculous myth — Clinton’s plan didn’t socialize anything — but the comment went uncorrected by the host, as if the observation was obviously true.<\/p>\n

It leads me to this week’s topic: what are the most persistent and irritating political myths? Perceptions that are false, but seem to be broadly accepted as true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard an interview the other day in which a conservative insisted that Hillary Clinton couldn’t appeal to a national audience in large part because she pushed a plan for “socialized medicine” in the early ’90s. Anyone who was even passively familiar with Clinton’s proposal had to realize that this is a ridiculous myth — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}