{"id":73520,"date":"2020-03-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73520"},"modified":"2020-03-08T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T22:23:07","slug":"the-thought-leader-of-todays-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73520","title":{"rendered":"The Thought Leader Of Today&#8217;s Left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just another day at the airport for Cenk Uygur, Armenian Holocaust denialist and host of <em>The Young Turks<\/em>, the screaming, tantrum-throwing inner <em>id <\/em>of modern progressivism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is a two-minute video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cenkuygur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cenkuygur<\/a> screaming at black airline employees because a flight was delayed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dGGFJzTsDt\">pic.twitter.com\/dGGFJzTsDt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevineJonathan\/status\/1236457674650406912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder if the poor airline employee IDed as a <em>Young Turks <\/em>fan will be filing a cease and desist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can call it <em>schadenfreud<\/em> if you want &#8211; I&#8217;ve met Uygur, and he&#8217;s not a lot less annoying in real life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you could call it karma for this glorious evening of self-parody that even the <em>Babylon Bee <\/em>couldn&#8217;t have envisioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bRf0tvEIbz0\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I say &#8220;why choose&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another day at the airport for Cenk Uygur, Armenian Holocaust denialist and host of The Young Turks, the screaming, tantrum-throwing inner id of modern progressivism: Here is a two-minute video @cenkuygur screaming at black airline employees because a flight was delayed pic.twitter.com\/dGGFJzTsDt &mdash; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 8, 2020 Wonder if the poor airline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520","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=73520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520\/revisions\/73521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}