{"id":3480,"date":"2008-07-21T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/planned-parenthood-targets-mccain-in-new-ad\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:38:00","slug":"planned-parenthood-targets-mccain-in-new-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/planned-parenthood-targets-mccain-in-new-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood targets McCain in new ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> is running a new TV ad in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and other battleground states highlighting a recent non-statement by Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> about why health-insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cEver use birth control?\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator asks. \u201cThen you\u2019ll want to hear this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad then goes to video of McCain being asked by a female reporter to comment on why insurance companies cover the erectile dysfunction drug but not birth control. After eight seconds of uncomfortable silence, McCain says, \u201cI don\u2019t know enough about it to give you a informed answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the ad:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object height=\"340\" width=\"420\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eivTm-VmfXg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eivTm-VmfXg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"340\" width=\"420\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What McCain actually said was, \u201cI certainly do not want to discuss that issue. \u2026 I don\u2019t know enough about it to give you a informed answer.\u201d He was responding to a question about a campaign adviser\u2019s statement that such action by insurance companies is unfair. You can view the full video by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q2y8dYwq01g\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Planned Parenthood has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood is running a new TV ad in New Mexico and other battleground states highlighting a recent non-statement by Republican presidential candidate John McCain about why health-insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control. \u201cEver use birth control?\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator asks. \u201cThen you\u2019ll want to hear this.\u201d The ad then goes to video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}