{"id":76302,"date":"2020-12-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76302"},"modified":"2020-12-27T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:52:04","slug":"profiles-in-courage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76302","title":{"rendered":"Profiles In Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As clubby, self-referential and solipsistic as the modern &#8220;elite&#8221; (and even not-so-elite) media is, I should have probably predicted we&#8217;d see scenes like this whenever Trump was on the brink of leaving office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never mind that &#8220;the Lightworker&#8221; Obama was did a whole lot more actual oppressing of &#8220;journos&#8221; than Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-admin\/link-manager.php\"><br>Links<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.  To these coddled hamsters&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ReliableSources\/status\/1343011834253762561\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;covering Trump was up there with going ashore with the first wave on Omaha Beach, or like riding in a B24 with Charles Collingwood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is a little ironic, given that The LIghtworker <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/the-administration\/311026-obamas-legacy-will-be-one-of-secrecy-and-hostility\">was, in fact, the most press-hostile President since Woodrow Wilson<\/a> &#8211; and given the deep-state leaks with which the executive branch was riven, it would have been pointless for The Donald to even try to match Obama&#8217;s record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As clubby, self-referential and solipsistic as the modern &#8220;elite&#8221; (and even not-so-elite) media is, I should have probably predicted we&#8217;d see scenes like this whenever Trump was on the brink of leaving office. Never mind that &#8220;the Lightworker&#8221; Obama was did a whole lot more actual oppressing of &#8220;journos&#8221; than Trump. Links No. To these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,263,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76302","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=76302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76303,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76302\/revisions\/76303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}