{"id":26184,"date":"2023-04-27T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=26184"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:01:18","slug":"confessions-of-a-political-flack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/confessions-of-a-political-flack\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFESSIONS OF A POLITICAL FLACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I learned in my few months as Eugene McCarthy\u2019s press secretary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/3455155-seymour-hersh\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_64,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bbe858d-9ba2-49fc-a3d0-8ce15f53d936_144x144.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/3455155-seymour-hersh\">SEYMOUR HERSH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>APR 26, 2023 (seymourhersh.substack.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4481ccdc-1f2e-4a6a-be6b-2ae1539b4923_2026x1234.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4481ccdc-1f2e-4a6a-be6b-2ae1539b4923_2026x1234.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Senator Eugene McCarthy campaigning for president in Seattle, August 15, 1968. \/ Stumanusa\/CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-public-appearances-media.html\">report<\/a>\u00a0that President Biden has been missing in action in recent months when it comes to serious question-and-answer sessions with the Washington press corps. The obvious reason for the lack of press conferences is \u201cto protect\u201d the president from unscripted exchanges that often result in missteps and confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Story continues at <a href=\"https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\">https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned in my few months as Eugene McCarthy\u2019s press secretary SEYMOUR HERSH APR 26, 2023 (seymourhersh.substack.com) Last weekend the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0published a\u00a0report\u00a0that President Biden has been missing in action in recent months when it comes to serious question-and-answer sessions with the Washington press corps. The obvious reason for&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/confessions-of-a-political-flack\/\"> 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":[1],"tags":[497,498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26185,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26184\/revisions\/26185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}