{"id":62150,"date":"2017-02-15T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62150"},"modified":"2017-02-14T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:26:07","slug":"fake-news-fake-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62150","title":{"rendered":"Fake News, Fake Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&#8217;s Democrat brain trust jumped on the news that former National Security Advisor Flynn had tweeted he was a scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p>They were obliging enough to do it on video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DIYzsZiQ860\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And who can blame &#8217;em? \u00a0It was in the <em>NYTimes<\/em> and the <em>WaPo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it was fake news. \u00a0When it&#8217;s political and it&#8217;s in the\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>or the\u00a0<em>WaPo<\/em>, one should assume it&#8217;s fake, and verify.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/02\/14\/new-york-times-nancy-pelosi-cite-fake-general-flynn-tweets\/\">It didn&#8217;t pass the stink test<\/a>, of course. \u00a0 When it comes to this administration, it almost never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&#8217;s Democrat brain trust jumped on the news that former National Security Advisor Flynn had tweeted he was a scapegoat. They were obliging enough to do it on video: And who can blame &#8217;em? \u00a0It was in the NYTimes and the WaPo. Of course, it was fake news. \u00a0When it&#8217;s political and it&#8217;s in the\u00a0Times\u00a0or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62150","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=62150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62151,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62150\/revisions\/62151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}