{"id":182186,"date":"2015-11-25T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/25\/the-new-york-times-uses-the-l-word\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:45:00","slug":"the-new-york-times-uses-the-l-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/25\/the-new-york-times-uses-the-l-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Uses the &#8220;L&#8221; Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By the &#8220;L&#8221; word, I mean that the <i>Times<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/24\/opinion\/mr-trumps-applause-lies.html\">calling Donald Trump a liar<\/a>, and they are actually using that word:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">America has just lived through another presidential campaign week dominated by <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/donald-trump-gaining-strength-questionable-comments\/story?id=35372912\">Donald Trump\u2019s racist lies<\/a>. Here\u2019s a partial list of false statements: The United States is about to take in 250,000 Syrian refugees; African-Americans are responsible for most white homicides; and during the 9\/11 attacks, \u201cthousands and thousands\u201d of people in an unnamed \u201cArab\u201d community in New Jersey \u201cwere cheering as that building was coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Republican field, Mr. Trump has distinguished himself as fastest to dive to the bottom. If it\u2019s a lie too vile to utter aloud, count on Mr. Trump to say it, often. It wins him airtime, and retweets through the roof.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice that they are calling a lie a lie, but there are a lot of other cases where the word, &#8220;lie&#8221;is completely justified.<\/p>\n<p>It be a real public service if they were to call other liars out in no uncertain terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the &#8220;L&#8221; word, I mean that the Times is calling Donald Trump a liar, and they are actually using that word: America has just lived through another presidential campaign week dominated by Donald Trump\u2019s racist lies. Here\u2019s a partial list of false statements: The United States is about to take in 250,000 Syrian refugees; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1051,1130,1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hypocrisy","category-language","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182186"}],"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=182186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}