{"id":176092,"date":"2020-09-06T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/06\/finest-journalist-in-the-united-states-is-a-brit\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T00:29:00","slug":"finest-journalist-in-the-united-states-is-a-brit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/06\/finest-journalist-in-the-united-states-is-a-brit\/","title":{"rendered":"Finest Journalist in the United States is a Brit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to John Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>He masterfully juxtaposes the lie fest at the RNC with the events in Kenosha.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad that a comedian is pretty much the only person in the main-stream-media providing good context and analysis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBu0BRTx2x8\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I think that John Oliver is much better than Jon Stewart ever was.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart subscribed to the &#8220;View from nowhere&#8221;, and Oliver does not hide his opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to John Oliver. He masterfully juxtaposes the lie fest at the RNC with the events in Kenosha. It&#8217;s sad that a comedian is pretty much the only person in the main-stream-media providing good context and analysis. As an aside, I think that John Oliver is much better than Jon Stewart &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,464,526,374,405,398,401],"class_list":["post-176092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-good-writing","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}