{"id":11810,"date":"2013-11-19T09:25:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2013-11-20T05:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T05:17:51","slug":"hollywood-says-us-is-embarrasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood says US is embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11811\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/annaharvey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11811\" alt=\"Anna Wintour from Vogue with Weinstein\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/annaharvey-300x282.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/annaharvey-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/annaharvey.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Wintour from Vogue with Weinstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the botched launch of Obamacare, the United States as a whole, because of its opposition to the health-care law and support of gun rights, is still more of an embarrassment than the president, said Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein. He also asserted that then-senator Obama wouldn\u2019t have been \u201cbeating\u201d on George W. Bush if Bush had rolled out a dysfunctional program as president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein, a big donor to the president, downplayed the problems with Obamacare\u2019s implementation and the misleading promise that Americans could keep their insurance plans, saying that Obama \u201cmade a mistake \u2014 he\u2019s human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is the only country in the world where we don\u2019t have a health-care,\u201d he told CNN\u2019s Piers Morgan over the weekend \u201cCountries embarrass us around the world \u2014 this is the only country in the world where we don\u2019t have a gun law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cObama\u2019s not embarrassing \u2014 the country\u2019s embarrassing,\u201d he said. &#8211; nationalreview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the botched launch of Obamacare, the United States as a whole, because of its opposition to the health-care law and support of gun rights, is still more of an embarrassment than the president, said Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein. He also asserted that then-senator Obama wouldn\u2019t have been \u201cbeating\u201d on George W. Bush if Bush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hollywood says US is embarrassing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[7464,7463,1861,6738,1638],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-donor","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-hollywood","tag-obamacare","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/annaharvey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}