{"id":16595,"date":"2012-10-03T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T23:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=16595"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T23:10:29","slug":"how-the-two-parties-control-the-presidential-debates-marginalize-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/how-the-two-parties-control-the-presidential-debates-marginalize-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Two Parties Control the Presidential Debates, Marginalize Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Farah, founder and executive director of Open Debates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/10\/3\/ahead_of_first_obama_romney_debate\">tells Democracy Now<\/a> that the two parties impose rules on the debates &#8220;to control various components of the debates to eliminate both third party candidates, unpredictable questions, and any threat to their dominance in our political process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2012\/10\/3\/ahead_of_first_obama_romney_debate\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Farah, founder and executive director of Open Debates, tells Democracy Now that the two parties impose rules on the debates &#8220;to control various components of the debates to eliminate both third party candidates, unpredictable questions, and any threat to their dominance in our political process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16595"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}