{"id":19993,"date":"2017-02-25T00:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T00:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19993"},"modified":"2017-02-25T00:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T00:49:29","slug":"mr-president-now-that-you-are-talking-about-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19993","title":{"rendered":"Mr. President, now that you are talking about &#8216;fake news&#8217; &#8230;"},"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\/2017\/02\/tupac-shakur-alive-fake-news-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19871\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tupac-shakur-alive-fake-news-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tupac-shakur-alive-fake-news-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tupac-shakur-alive-fake-news-2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would love to meet the reporter who stands in front of the president of the United States and asks him the following:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Mr. President. You are complaining about &#8220;fake news,&#8221; which I take to mean is news with which you disagree.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering, sir, how would you describe the &#8220;news&#8221; you kept promoting for about a half-dozen years that President Barack Obama was a foreign-born individual who wasn&#8217;t constitutionally qualified to serve in the office to which he was elected twice?<\/p>\n<p>Was that news &#8220;fake,&#8221; sir? And how do you compare that outright lie with what you contend is taking place today?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>I would bet the mortgage, the farm, my left leg that the president would go ballistic if he were to hear such a question from &#8220;the enemy of the American people.&#8221;<\/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>I would love to meet the reporter who stands in front of the president of the United States and asks him the following: Thank you, Mr. President. You are complaining about &#8220;fake news,&#8221; which I take to mean is news with which you disagree. I&#8217;m wondering, sir, how would you describe the &#8220;news&#8221; you kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. President, now that you are talking about &#8216;fake news&#8217; &#8230;<\/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":[10],"tags":[540,1424,6712,2858],"class_list":["post-19993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-mainstream-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993","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=19993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19994,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions\/19994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}