{"id":88557,"date":"2024-10-22T06:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88557"},"modified":"2024-10-22T06:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:48:53","slug":"road-nowhere-near-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88557","title":{"rendered":"Road Nowhere Near Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I met Cenk Uyghur &#8211; host of &#8220;Young Turds&#8221; &#8211; once upon a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m a pretty polite guy.\u00a0 And I had bigger things going on than having to waste time on the guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So even though my first impression of the guy was pretty awful, it never occurred to me to uncork on him quite like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow: Mosab Hassan Yousef destroys Cenk Uyghur.<br><br>\u201cYou are a parasite, a bottom feeder.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DwLKOQtU1P\">pic.twitter.com\/DwLKOQtU1P<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EYakoby\/status\/1848473362647158947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fair.  And accurate. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m glad Hassan did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 I&#8217;m told his show is called &#8220;Young Turks&#8221;.\u00a0 I regret the error.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FROM THE. HISTORY FILE:  This clip from Election Night 2016 will never not make me smile:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Young Turks Election Meltdown 2016: From smug to utterly devastated.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UiWY0iRLV94?start=1334&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Cenk Uyghur &#8211; host of &#8220;Young Turds&#8221; &#8211; once upon a time.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m a pretty polite guy.\u00a0 And I had bigger things going on than having to waste time on the guy.\u00a0 So even though my first impression of the guy was pretty awful, it never occurred to me to uncork on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,425,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-campaign-24","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88557","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=88557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88558,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88557\/revisions\/88558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}