{"id":72841,"date":"2019-12-16T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72841"},"modified":"2019-12-16T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:25:04","slug":"just-for-a-moment-lets-cut-the-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72841","title":{"rendered":"Just For A Moment, Let&#8217;s Cut The Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The media rolls its eyes and plays innocent about the attempted coup going on in Washington.  They&#8217;re just reporting the news, maaaaaaaaaaaaaan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYT editorial board supports impeaching Trump, joining WaPo,<br>USA Today, LA Times, Boston Globe, and others <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f0yxgr66zg\">https:\/\/t.co\/f0yxgr66zg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlcalderone\/status\/1205945523334766602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mollie Hemingway from Federalist points out the elephant in the room:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Impeachment was ALWAYS a media effort that they bullied Democrats into doing even when Mueller failed to deliver goods. It BEGAN with editorial board support, it didn\u2019t build to it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cL3ZaL63ty\">https:\/\/t.co\/cL3ZaL63ty<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1206056998422355968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You could hear it, in plain sight (as it were), in November of 2016, when reps from the\u00a0<em>NYTimes\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>WaPo\u00a0<\/em>newsrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\/episodes\/on-the-media-2016-12-02\">Listen to it.\u00a0 Be disgusted<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a huge Trump fan &#8211; seriously, not.\u00a0 But listening to that?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say Big Leftymedia\u00a0<em>doesn&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>want to start a civil war.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If they did, what would they be doing differently?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media rolls its eyes and plays innocent about the attempted coup going on in Washington. They&#8217;re just reporting the news, maaaaaaaaaaaaaan: Mollie Hemingway from Federalist points out the elephant in the room: You could hear it, in plain sight (as it were), in November of 2016, when reps from the\u00a0NYTimes\u00a0and\u00a0WaPo\u00a0newsrooms.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,367,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-trump","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72841","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=72841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72842,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72841\/revisions\/72842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}