{"id":2761,"date":"2009-07-05T11:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T16:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2009-07-05T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T16:32:03","slug":"the-lady-doth-protest-too-much-methinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/colin_mcenroe_to_wit\/2009\/07\/this-is-an-interesting-turn.html\">Via Colin McEnroe<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0709\/24521.html\">Politico<\/a>:<u><br \/><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p>Ratcheting up her offensive against the news <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.politico.com\/index.cfm\/topic\/Media\" target=\"_blank\">media<\/a>, Gov. Sarah Palin\u2019s attorney threatened Saturday to sue mainstream news organizations if they publish \u201cdefamatory\u201d stories relating to whether Palin is under federal investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Not great legal strategy in my opinion. The folks receiving these letters can now report on the letter, and, by way of providing context, on the rumours. Palin just gave them a sure fire defense to any libel action, which she probably would have lost anyway.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Colin McEnroe by Politico: Ratcheting up her offensive against the news media, Gov. Sarah Palin\u2019s attorney threatened Saturday to sue mainstream news organizations if they publish \u201cdefamatory\u201d stories relating to whether Palin is under federal investigation. Not great legal strategy in my opinion. The folks receiving these letters can now report on the letter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}