{"id":66671,"date":"2018-04-26T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66671"},"modified":"2018-04-27T06:46:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:46:22","slug":"grandfathered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66671","title":{"rendered":"Grandfathered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, I’ll cop to two facts: First, I’ve gone back and forth about Kanye West – he’s a talented rapper (yes, there is such a thing, and if you haven’t tried to do it, by all means do before you let your aesthetics and subjective preferences drive you to write a rhetorical check facts can’t cash) and a gargantuan ego; an open Christian (in a way similar to Prince, in some ways) and a deeply profane person; he interests and repels me in equal measure, depending on when you catch me.<\/p>\n

Second:\u00a0 I’ll profess some bemusement at all the conservative figures who’ve adopted him as a hero in the past week, since he came to the defense of Candace Owens<\/a>, a black conservative woman who’s been mixing it up with Back Lives Matter.<\/p>\n

As we’ve noted in the past – if there’s one thing Big Left hates more than its enemies, its apostates.\u00a0 Lenin killed the Mensheviks before he got to the White Russians; Hitler had to deal with Ernst R\u00f6hm before he went after the dissident clergy, gays and Jews.\u00a0 ISIS kills “apostate” Muslims before they bother with Christians and Jews.<\/p>\n

And American “Progressives” have to slime women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, gays or any other of “Their” groups who leave the One True Political Faith.<\/p>\n

Which, it would seem, Kanye West did in defending a Trump-supporting black woman; Big Left is fully engaged in tearing down<\/a> what they think they built.\u00a0 (Yes, West is a\u00a0provocateur<\/em>, and it’s entirely likely his “conversation” to “supporting” a conservative will last just as long as Charles Barkley’s did.\u00a0 But that’s not the point, here).<\/p>\n

It’s true for little left, too.<\/p>\n

Jamar Nelson – who is a talk show host on the lesser talk station – had this to say about Kanye West yesterday:<\/p>\n

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I tried to ask Mr. Nelson – who is one of the MNDFL’s leading public intellectuals, and I mean that sincerely – who determined what was “at the expense of the black community”?\u00a0 And if perhaps unthinking loyalty to a party that’s earnestly worked to keep that community in poverty for two generations now might not be an “expense” to that community as well.<\/p>\n

I got nothing, nor will I, but as the great journalist Gretzky said, you get no answers to 100% of the questions you don’t ask.<\/p>\n

I’m just trying to find a unit if time short enough to measure how long it’d take to get a Salem host off the air who wrote something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, I’ll cop to two facts: First, I’ve gone back and forth about Kanye West – he’s a talented rapper (yes, there is such a thing, and if you haven’t tried to do it, by all means do before you let your aesthetics and subjective preferences drive you to write a rhetorical check facts can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66671","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=66671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66682,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66671\/revisions\/66682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}