{"id":200243,"date":"2021-05-31T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/31\/candace-owens-is-the-worst-minstrel-show-ever\/"},"modified":"2021-05-31T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:07:00","slug":"candace-owens-is-the-worst-minstrel-show-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/31\/candace-owens-is-the-worst-minstrel-show-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Owens is the Worst Minstrel Show Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s not fair to mock Candace Owens for not knowing Lee Harvey Oswald was a marine. <\/p>\n<p>In her defense, she is a moron. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFVMG8xli0\">pic.twitter.com\/fFVMG8xli0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JDP (@petee224) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petee224\/status\/1399528506321780738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Candace Owens who has gone from not particularly talented actress to right-wing joke, just doubled down on the joke part.<\/p>\n<p>You see, an internet prankster sent a (real) picture of a (real) US Marine to various right-wing figures, asking them to wish a happy memorial day on behalf of his (fake) grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>It was a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald, a man who every US Marine would condemn, even if he had not shot JFK, because he also defected to the USSR.<\/p>\n<p>Candace Owens was in high dudgeon about this, claiming that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petee224\/status\/1399528506321780738\">disrespectful to Photoshop his picture into a photo of a US Serviceman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, anyone who knows who Oswald was should know that he was (a pretty horrible, twice court martialed) US Marine.<\/p>\n<p>You can object to the prank, I find it hilarious, but claiming that it is a Photoshop is beyond stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that this is what comes from a decade or so of channeling Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (Aka Stepin Fetchit).<\/p>\n<p>It rots the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not fair to mock Candace Owens for not knowing Lee Harvey Oswald was a marine. In her defense, she is a moron. pic.twitter.com\/fFVMG8xli0 \u2014 JDP (@petee224) June 1, 2021 Candace Owens who has gone from not particularly talented actress to right-wing joke, just doubled down on the joke part. You see, an internet prankster &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,987,1051,978,1190,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-fail","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-practical-jokes","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200243"}],"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=200243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}