{"id":62010,"date":"2017-02-03T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62010"},"modified":"2017-01-30T20:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:07:58","slug":"if-the-media-didnt-have-double-standards-yadda-yadda-yadda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62010","title":{"rendered":"If The Media Didn&#8217;t Have Double Standards Yadda Yadda Yadda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ivanka went on a date while <\/span><span class=\"s2\">L<\/span><span class=\"s1\">iberals were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/social-media-users-knock-ivanka-trump-over-date-night-photo-during-protests\/ar-AAmnp9F?li=BBnbfcL&amp;ocid=mailsignout\"><span class=\"s3\">busy protesting in airports<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0How dare she?<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0 S<\/span><span class=\"s1\">he should be wearing sack cloth and ashes to atone for the sins of the man who was elected to do what he is doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two thoughts: first, what happened to the \u201cLeave the Children Out of It\u201d policy regarding Presidential offspring?\u00a0 She\u2019s not the President, she\u2019s not out there making stump speeches for him, she\u2019s not responsible for what he says or does.\u00a0 Leave her out of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Second, the reaction is quite a contrast to the total silence when The Light Bringer was golfing, or beaching, or just lazing about watching the playoffs as soldiers got killed or ambassadors dragged through the streets. \u00a0Almost as if there\u2019s some sort of, I dunno, maybe a double standard?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">I&#8217;m pretty convinced that:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li class=\"p1\">The Democrats&#8217; current messaging strategy is &#8220;just say whatever we need to, because gullible peoples&#8217; votes count as much as anyone&#8217;s. \u00a0Consistency, logic and ethics are for those square-state rubes&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The big media are just fine with that, and playing along with enthusiasm.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Ivanka went on a date while Liberals were busy protesting in airports. \u00a0How dare she?\u00a0 She should be wearing sack cloth and ashes to atone for the sins of the man who was elected to do what he is doing. Two thoughts: first, what happened to the \u201cLeave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62015,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62010\/revisions\/62015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}