{"id":181611,"date":"2016-05-05T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/05\/the-only-opinion-that-matters-except-maybe-his-own\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:21:00","slug":"the-only-opinion-that-matters-except-maybe-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/05\/the-only-opinion-that-matters-except-maybe-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Opinion that Matters \u2026\u2026\u2026 Except Maybe his Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/33VRygOXVTM?rel=0\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Stephen Colbert just <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2016\/05\/stephen-colbert-applauds-larry-wilmores\">gave major props to Larry Wilmore for his White House Correspondents Dinner speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Last night Stephen Colbert opened his monologue with that &#8216;phone call.&#8217;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Now personally, I thought Larry gave a great speech, that did not let the President or the press off the hook, And I am confident that Larry will receive the ultimate recognition for his work \u2014 never being invited back.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He also addressed the end of Larry&#8217;s speech, which if you have ever watched The Nightly Show you know was not a racial slur or insult. But leave it to Colbert to put it in perspective.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;There was a little controversy, a moment at the end where Larry said the n-word. It was shocking, but it did lay the groundwork for President Trump to say it next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sound you hear is a mic dropping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert just gave major props to Larry Wilmore for his White House Correspondents Dinner speech: \u2026\u2026\u2026 Last night Stephen Colbert opened his monologue with that &#8216;phone call.&#8217; &#8220;Now personally, I thought Larry gave a great speech, that did not let the President or the press off the hook, And I am confident that Larry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1048,1064,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-humor","category-media","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181611"}],"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=181611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}