{"id":15712,"date":"2012-09-28T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15712"},"modified":"2012-09-28T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:59:04","slug":"paid-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15712","title":{"rendered":"Paid Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Video\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Viral video\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viral_video\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">went viral<\/a> yesterday was the Obama Phone video, but there was another story at the Romney rally in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bedford, Ohio\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.3925,-81.5344444444&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=41.3925,-81.5344444444 (Bedford%2C%20Ohio)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford, Ohio<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/09\/27\/seiu-paid-anti-romney-protesters-11hour-in-cleveland-video\/\"> Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story yesterday reporting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Independent film\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independent_film\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">amateur filmmaker<\/a> who shot the footage (Obama Phone video)\u00a0 also has released video revealing that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Service Employees International Union\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union<\/a> (SEIU) paid protestors during a recent rally for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Republican<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidential nominee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidential_nominee\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">presidential nominee<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have shared this story before, but two years ago, when working on a campaign in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.3,-71.8&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=42.3,-71.8 (Massachusetts)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts<\/a>, supporters of the Republican candidate were faced with paid protesters at a debate. There was a definite attempt by the union thugs to stir up an incident that would be reported by the press. No incident occurred, as most of the people attending the debate were mature enough to ignore the provocations. It was a lesson to me on how paid union protesters operate.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=80ff73be-ef5d-4624-b87b-a7cbe9fca8d4\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video that went viral yesterday was the Obama Phone video, but there was another story at the Romney rally in Bedford, Ohio on Wednesday. The Daily Caller posted a story yesterday reporting: The amateur filmmaker who shot the footage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,4039,174,142,352,145,164,115],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-bedford-ohio","tag-daily-caller","tag-massachusetts","tag-mitt-romney","tag-ohio","tag-republican","tag-service-employees-international-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}