{"id":4289,"date":"2006-05-27T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2010-01-17T23:20:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T05:20:27","slug":"watch-mr-rogers-kick-senatorial-ass-and-take-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/watch-mr-rogers-kick-senatorial-ass-and-take-name\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Mr Rogers Kick Senatorial Ass and Take Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The embedding has been disabled but follow the link and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Sd7TcVH670\" class=\"external external_icon\">watch Mr Rogers take down a Senator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Sd7TcVH670\" class=\"external external_icon\">This is an video clip of the exchange between Mr. Rogers and Senator Pastore, head of the hearing<\/a>. Senator Pastore starts out very abrasive and by the time Mr. Rogers is done talking, Senator Pastore&#8217;s inner child has heard Mr. Rogers and agreed with him. Enjoy.<\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Sd7TcVH670\" class=\"external external_icon\">youtube<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/font> What do ya know.  Google Video <em>is<\/em> sharing the embedding.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><embed style=\"width:400px; height:326px;\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DvwAAAG7ggqAHSiJjpW0D3w4aYTWF28IBm7Pi5PWF7216OoWTxD4nZA4OIZC2RK_WMUxPIBIGy-g09WYy6YSMBAEQY7baZWUfiYyv7oC2L0OtdICkhX6ZRTQ0mfuyL6DI2_dtnuWD9ROo3nFyfL1Pd1IoRdR8PesMWH9M9Ma-3CuEk6ntRHTJe5c7UUmtcRNf0CvJ5uOF0ljiwGUjRi-KubXLT-4WeLVzHjR2DUPNRAwrrHgCCv4YHNb6MZZV4TjcQSyYSA%26sigh%3DlCqd_9vbwm4y1NcuHDJBe43vyXc%26begin%3D0%26len%3D409999%26docid%3D2883185966575573317&#038;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fapp%3Dvss%26contentid%3Ddf83cedcb4e90636%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1148761472%26sigh%3DEY0MvsTJlQ0qfAmc1JGpGsnW-pI&#038;playerId=2883185966575573317\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" quality=\"best\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" scale=\"noScale\" wmode=\"window\" salign=\"TL\"  FlashVars=\"playerMode=embedded\"> <\/embed><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embedding has been disabled but follow the link and watch Mr Rogers take down a Senator. In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,14,7],"tags":[88,1868,1869,4927],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-usa","category-video","tag-80s-flashback","tag-mr-rogers","tag-vcr","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}