{"id":3456,"date":"2013-09-13T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2013-09-13T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:18:35","slug":"putin-and-bushs-favorite-pr-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/13\/putin-and-bushs-favorite-pr-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Bush&#8217;s Favorite PR firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&#038;action=get&#038;id=13015&#038;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/12\/opinion\/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?pagewanted=all\">his op-ed<\/a> in <em>The <\/em><em>New York Times<\/em> Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin has done what no American can&#8211;unite Congress. Granted, it&#8217;s united by an intense, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/thelead.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/11\/sen-menendez-reacts-to-putins-op-ed-i-wanted-to-vomit\/\">vomit<\/a>&quot;-inducing revolution at the spectacle of being lectured to by a hostile strongman in the nation&#8217;s paper of record, but at least Putin can claim an unlikely bedfellow in President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Ketchum, the PR firm Putin used to place his op-ed in <em>The <em>T<\/em><\/em><em>imes<\/em>, was the same company that the Bush administration used to produce what the Government Accountability Office later called illegal &quot;covert propaganda.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Under contract from the Department of Education, Ketchum <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm\">paid<\/a> conservative pundit Armstrong Williams $241,000 in taxpayer money to tout No Child Left Behind in appearances on CNN and CNBC, and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio ads.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/putin-and-bush-s-favorite-pr-firm-20130913<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his op-ed in The New York Times Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin has done what no American can&#8211;unite Congress. Granted, it&#8217;s united by an intense, &quot;vomit&quot;-inducing revolution at the spectacle of being lectured to by a hostile strongman in the nation&#8217;s paper of record, but at least Putin can claim an unlikely bedfellow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/13\/putin-and-bushs-favorite-pr-firm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putin and Bush&#8217;s Favorite PR firm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-TK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}