{"id":29403,"date":"2017-09-10T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29403"},"modified":"2017-09-10T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:03:54","slug":"6-media-meltdowns-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/10\/6-media-meltdowns-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Media Meltdowns Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media meltdowns are a common enough occurrence in normal times, but the foreign assault on and subsequent occupation of the White House by Resident Donald Trump [R-RU], aka Putin’s Piddle Puppet, ensure that these are not normal times.  Consider this:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Fox_News_Nazi\"2. Fox News eggs on white vigilantes threatening to ‘shoot looters’ in Houston.<\/h6>\n

Fox News\u2019 business model is predicated on driving to the one-yard line of white supremacy, then acting shocked when it’s accused of trying to score a touchdown. Fox’s institutional flirtation with white nationalist tropes has gotten more overt with the rise of Trump, a fact that was on full display in one particularly gross segment<\/a> in which a Fox News anchor laughed at the thought of a few vigilante rednecks going around shooting \u201clooters.\u201d  <\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamjohnsonNYC\/status\/906320820221464580<\/a><\/p>\n

Who are these looters? Presumably the two gun-wielding white guys will drive around making this determination and blowing people away based on their own ad hoc judgments of guilt. All just another good laugh on the set of Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Alternet<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

If Republicans follow their GOP SOP, they will make the determination of whether or not to shoot based on skin color.<\/font><\/p>\n

Thus is just the second of six media meltdowns from last week alone.  Click through for the other five.  Then…<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media meltdowns are a common enough occurrence in normal times, but the foreign assault on and subsequent occupation of the White House by Resident Donald Trump [R-RU], aka Putin’s Piddle Puppet, ensure that these are not normal times.  Consider this: 2. Fox News eggs on white vigilantes threatening to ‘shoot looters’ in Houston. Fox News\u2019 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}