{"id":179010,"date":"2018-06-18T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/18\/i-blame-the-editors\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:56:00","slug":"i-blame-the-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/18\/i-blame-the-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"I Blame the Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/n2mkQmr.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/n2mkQmr.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>It&#8217;s Called Google<\/i><\/div>\n<p>SE Cupp published an OP\/ED in the <i>New York Times<\/i> because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I don&#8217;t know why really \u2026\u2026\u2026 I think that it&#8217;s either a rather bizarre form of performance art from the <i>Times<\/i> editors, or if it&#8217;s because they have some sort of affirmative action program for stupid conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting about her OP\/Ed (no link, for reasons which will become obvious) is that it it prominently features one, &#8220;Amy Maurer, a 43-year-old well-educated suburban mom in  Kenosha, Wis.,&#8221; who were aggressively targeted by the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<div>One small thing though, Ms. Maurer is not just a well educated Soccer mom, she is the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscocca\/status\/1008371613304283137\">corresponding secretary for the executive committee of the Republican Party of Kenosha County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Clinton&#8217;s campaign may have had mind boggling levels of incompetence, but even they weren&#8217;t wasting resources going after Republican Party cadres.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, I wonder why Amy was spewing Republican talking points when she was talking to the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Salena Zito, who Cupp sites copiously in article.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <i>New York Times<\/i> really needs to hire a fact checker for their editorial page.<\/div>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2018\/06\/bari-weiss-just-cant-find-google-on-her.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Called Google SE Cupp published an OP\/ED in the New York Times because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I don&#8217;t know why really \u2026\u2026\u2026 I think that it&#8217;s either a rather bizarre form of performance art from the Times editors, or if it&#8217;s because they have some sort of affirmative action program for stupid conservatives. What is interesting &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":[588,490,374],"class_list":["post-179010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-hack-journalism","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179010"}],"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=179010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}