{"id":189397,"date":"2010-04-04T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/04\/jon-stewart-national-treasure\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:38:00","slug":"jon-stewart-national-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/04\/jon-stewart-national-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart: National Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 360px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:268705\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that Jon Stewart is saying that all Republicans are Racists, but he is saying that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this Republican<\/span> calling into to CSPAN is a racist, and he is also making a comment on the sort of, &#8220;Opinions on the shape of the Earth differ,&#8221; coverage that you see amongst people who see themselves as members of the journalistic community.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, one of the major problems in our political discourse these days is that  fact that there is literally <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">nothing<\/span> that a right-winger can say, no matter how bigoted or deceitful, that can get a meaningful push-back from the gentleman in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think that Jon Stewart is saying that all Republicans are Racists, but he is saying that this Republican calling into to CSPAN is a racist, and he is also making a comment on the sort of, &#8220;Opinions on the shape of the Earth differ,&#8221; coverage that you see amongst people who see themselves &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1002,1001,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-good-writing","category-racism","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189397"}],"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=189397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}