{"id":1153,"date":"2010-11-18T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2011-02-27T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T18:49:25","slug":"frank-rich-mishandles-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/frank-rich-mishandles-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Rich Mishandles the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare that a single article demonstrates such a sweeping misread  of the forces of wealth in free society, but Frank Rich\u2019s recent New  York Time article, \u201c<a title=\"&quot;Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?&quot;, Frank Rich, NYTimes.com, 11\/13\/2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/14\/opinion\/14rich.html\" target=\"_blank\">Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?<\/a>\u201c, proves that such events do occur.<\/p>\n<p>Right of the bat, Rich draws the wrong conclusion in his account of  wealthy Republican candidates who collectively spent deep into nine  figures trying to get elected.\u00a0 I say God bless \u2018em. At least we have a  system that allows such people to try.\u00a0\u00a0 Advertising, marketing and  communications firms around the country positively love these people,  and thousands of employees probably owe their jobs to them.\u00a0 Indeed, to  argue that money doesn\u2019t matter in political campaigns is to argue that  the entire advertising industry is a fraud.\u00a0\u00a0 However, where Rich says  these candidates \u201ctried to buy Senate seats and governor\u2019s mansions\u201d,  can we finally agree that that\u2019s simply not possible, and move on?<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2010\/11\/18\/frank-rich-mishandles-the-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare that a single article demonstrates such a sweeping misread of the forces of wealth in free society, but Frank Rich\u2019s recent New York Time article, \u201cWho Will Stand Up to the Superrich?\u201c, proves that such events do occur. Right of the bat, Rich draws the wrong conclusion in his account of wealthy Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}