{"id":398,"date":"2008-01-24T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T04:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2008-03-20T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T16:05:02","slug":"whisper-during-the-republican-debate-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/398","title":{"rendered":"Whisper during the Republican debate tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else hear someone prompt Romney during the last segment?  He was being ask if he would do for Social Security what Ronald Regan did in the 80&#8217;s.  You can clearly hear someone off camera whisper &#8220;Raise Taxes&#8221; and then after that Romney says, &#8220;Well I am not going to raise taxes.&#8221;  His whole answer is about Raising Taxes after that and he doesn&#8217;t really reference anything specific to Regan or what he did.  I would say it was obvious that he didn&#8217;t know what Regan had done and someone prompted him.<\/p>\n<p>WTF was that all about?  Does anyone know who it was that said that and how often does it happen that the mics don&#8217;t happen to pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>**UPDATE**<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the line that is coming out now, is that it was Brian Williams prompting Russert with the rest of the question.  I can see how that might be it, but I stand with what I wrote above in the impression that it gave, even if it may have been  something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else hear someone prompt Romney during the last segment? He was being ask if he would do for Social Security what Ronald Regan did in the 80&#8217;s. You can clearly hear someone off camera whisper &#8220;Raise Taxes&#8221; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/398\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[29,27,30,28],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-junk","tag-mittens","tag-republicans","tag-romney","tag-whisper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}