{"id":447,"date":"2007-07-10T23:29:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T06:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:14:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:02:24","slug":"spin-lessons-for-the-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Spin Lessons For The Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mayorsam.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/spin-lessons-for-mayor.html\">From MayorSam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a politician in trouble and you&#8217;ve been accused of being a bad boy, how do you turn around your opponents&#8217; charges? The following are some <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/richrwg\/truthno.htm\">Techniques for Truth Suppression<\/a> by David Martin, author of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">America&#8217;s Dreyfus Affair<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mayorsam.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/i-believe-them.html#c2243896702861422700\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wax indignant<\/span><\/a>. This is also known as the &quot;how dare you?&quot; gambit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-lamayor_10jul10,1,6709129.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Characterize the charges as &quot;rumors&quot;<\/span><\/a> or, better yet, &quot;wild rumors.&quot; If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through &quot;rumors.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MayorSam: If you&#8217;re a politician in trouble and you&#8217;ve been accused of being a bad boy, how do you turn around your opponents&#8217; charges? The following are some Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin, author of America&#8217;s Dreyfus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antonio-villaraigosa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}