{"id":17547,"date":"2016-10-13T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17547"},"modified":"2016-10-13T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:17:11","slug":"this-image-burns-deeply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17547","title":{"rendered":"This image burns deeply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-mocks-reporter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17548\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-mocks-reporter-300x169.png\" alt=\"trump-mocks-reporter\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-mocks-reporter-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-mocks-reporter-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-mocks-reporter-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-mocks-reporter.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the images we&#8217;ve seen during this wild, wacky and weird presidential election, perhaps none resonates with more people than the one of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump mocking a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>You see the picture here. Trump is gesturing in a way that mimics Serge Kovaleski&#8217;s disability. Kovaleski is a reporter with the New York Times; he suffers from arthrogryposis, which inhibits movement of his joints.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Kovaleski got into a beef over an article the reporter wrote in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks. Trump used the article to contend falsely that &#8220;thousands of Muslims&#8221; cheered the collapse of the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing: While criticizing Kovaleski&#8217;s response to Trump&#8217;s false assertion of what he reported initially, the candidate decided to flail his arms around to mimic the reporter&#8217;s disability.<\/p>\n<p>It was an unconscionable and profoundly stupid demonstration of insensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>Concern over this act by the candidate was tossed aside by his supporters during the GOP primary campaign as being overblown and overhyped.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s a video showing Trump doing what his primary supporters said was, well, no big deal:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jxd76wco5lQ<\/p>\n<p>You can be the judge of what you see here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made mine already. What I see is someone who purports to want to become the leader of the greatest nation on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>To my eyes and ears, this individual &#8212; Trump &#8212; isn&#8217;t qualified to clean the White House toilets.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the images we&#8217;ve seen during this wild, wacky and weird presidential election, perhaps none resonates with more people than the one of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump mocking a reporter. You see the picture here. Trump is gesturing in a way that mimics Serge Kovaleski&#8217;s disability. Kovaleski is a reporter with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This image burns deeply<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,3360,6636],"class_list":["post-17547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times","tag-serge-kovaleski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17550,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions\/17550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}