{"id":919,"date":"2008-05-04T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-05-05T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T13:12:18","slug":"%e2%80%9ci%e2%80%99m-not-going-to-put-my-lot-in-with-economists%e2%80%9d-things-politicians-say-no44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/%e2%80%9ci%e2%80%99m-not-going-to-put-my-lot-in-with-economists%e2%80%9d-things-politicians-say-no44\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m not going to put my lot in with economists.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things politicians say (no.44)<br \/>\n<span class=\"dropcaps\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span>nyone can do journalism. Here, for example, is <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bill Clinton<\/span>\u2019s former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Reich\" target=\"_blank\">Labour Secretary<\/a> turned <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/obama-for-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama fan,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/hillary-clinton-doesnt-listen-to.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robert Reich<\/a>, on Hillary.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked this morning by ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said \u201cI\u2019m not going to put my lot in with economists.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know several of the economists who have been advising Senator Clinton, so I phoned them right after I heard this. I reached two of them. One hadn\u2019t heard her remark and said he couldn\u2019t believe she\u2019d say it. The other had heard it and shrugged it off as \u201cpolitics as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nice. You can\u2019t imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josiah_Bartlet\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Jed Bartlet<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Santos\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Matt Santos<\/span><\/a> Barack Obama spinning that old line.<\/p>\n<p>Someone help Robert out with his blogger template though. It\u2019s a dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things politicians say (no.44) Anyone can do journalism. Here, for example, is Bill Clinton\u2019s former Labour Secretary turned Obama fan, Robert Reich, on Hillary. When asked this morning by ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said \u201cI\u2019m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}