{"id":6506,"date":"2015-05-27T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2015-06-06T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T23:56:02","slug":"no-more-dark-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/27\/no-more-dark-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Dark Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-opposition-research-presidential-election-20150521-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Once a dark art, opposition research comes out of the shadows for 2016 campaigns<\/h1>\n<p><b>By <a class=\"trb_bylines_name_author_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-evan-halper-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Halper<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_img\" title=\"Tracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-555db8a4\/turbine\/la-na-opposition-research-presidential-electio-001\/750\/750x422\" alt=\"Tracker\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-height=\"450\" \/><em>A man attempts to block a political operative&#8217;s video camera as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker meets in Washington with members of Congress, K Street representatives and GOP donors. (Chip Somodevilla \/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden was not the only one who found himself in crisis when a videotape emerged during the 1988 presidential primary exposing him as a plagiarist.The political operatives who had secretly distributed footage of Sen. Biden passing off the words of a British politician as his own also had a big problem on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Their disclosure nearly derailed the candidacy of the rival the operatives worked for, Michael S. Dukakis. He fired them and issued a major mea culpa.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect any such apologies in this year\u2019s presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>Political opposition research, once a mostly unmentioned dark art, has turned into a garish, multimillion-dollar enterprise complete with logos, marketing strategies and indiscriminate, real-time streaming of the work product onto social media.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-opposition-research-presidential-election-20150521-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Once a dark art, opposition research comes out of the shadows for 2016 campaigns By Evan Halper A man attempts to block a political operative&#8217;s video camera as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker meets in Washington with members of Congress, K Street representatives and GOP donors. (Chip Somodevilla \/ Getty Images) Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}