{"id":38679,"date":"2017-05-26T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38679"},"modified":"2017-05-25T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:16:22","slug":"a-brief-history-of-politicians-body-slamming-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/26\/a-brief-history-of-politicians-body-slamming-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Politicians Body-Slamming Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QyIDuBBXyC8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 25 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the twilight hours of a special election to replace Montana&#8217;s lone congressman, Republican hopeful Greg Gianforte reportedly &#8220;body slammed&#8221; and punched a <em>Guardian<\/em> reporter after the journalist tried to ferret out an answer about GOP health care plans. In this video <em>Reason TV<\/em> imagines a world in which other, high profile politicians give into violent impulses when confronted by the press.<\/p>\n<p>Polls opened in Montana less than twenty-four hours after Gianforte&#8217;s confrontation with <em>Guardian<\/em> reporter Ben Jacobs, and his subsequent assault charge. In the event that Mr. Gianforte is elected to Congress there is a reasonable chance he will interact with more journalists in the future, and possibly even have to formulate responses to Republican legislation at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Andrew Heaton, Austin Bragg, and Meredith Bragg<br \/>\nPerformed by Andrew Heaton and Austin Bragg<br \/>\nProduced by Meredith Bragg and Austin Bragg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 25 May 2017 In the twilight hours of a special election to replace Montana&#8217;s lone congressman, Republican hopeful Greg Gianforte reportedly &#8220;body slammed&#8221; and punched a Guardian reporter after the journalist tried to ferret out an answer about GOP health care plans. In this video Reason TV imagines a world in which other, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[188,866,688,463,517,515],"class_list":["post-38679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-fdr","tag-montana","tag-parody","tag-republican","tag-richardnixon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38680,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679\/revisions\/38680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}