{"id":6764,"date":"2006-03-04T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2006-03-04T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T14:15:50","slug":"a-different-kind-of-political-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-different-kind-of-political-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of political pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"mailto:morbomorboson@hotmail.com\">Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the opening sentence from a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/newsflash\/national\/index.ssf?\/base\/national-60\/1141349962158740.xml&#038;storylist=national\">Associated Press dispatch<\/a> from Wise, Va.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investigation that began with allegations of cigarettes, alcohol and pork rinds being offered for votes led to the indictment Thursday of a small town&#8217;s mayor and 13 others on charges of election fraud and corruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To my friends in Wise, I can only say this: Selling your vote is bad enough, people, but selling your vote for <i>pork rinds<\/i>? Please, folks, let&#8217;s try to have a little dignity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m from Appalachia. These types of stories propagate extremely unfortunate stereotypes. What do you think is going to happen when Leno gets a hold of this? Why not just drive to Hollywood and start handling snakes right in the studio?<\/p>\n<p>If you must sell your vote, at least hold out for something halfway decent &#8212; perhaps Lays potato chips, and just not one of those little snack bags, either. Get a jumbo bag. After all, they say no one can eat just one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Morbo Here is the opening sentence from a recent Associated Press dispatch from Wise, Va.: An investigation that began with allegations of cigarettes, alcohol and pork rinds being offered for votes led to the indictment Thursday of a small town&#8217;s mayor and 13 others on charges of election fraud and corruption. To [&hellip;]<\/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-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","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=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}