{"id":20499,"date":"2017-03-21T03:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20499"},"modified":"2017-03-21T03:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T03:34:47","slug":"so-long-judge-napolitano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20499","title":{"rendered":"So long, Judge Napolitano"},"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\/03\/andrew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20500\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/andrew-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/andrew-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/andrew.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Readers of this blog know that I am not likely to offer many compliments to the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n<p>I am about to break tradition and declare that Fox has done the right thing by taking a loudmouth &#8220;legal analyst&#8221; off the air for blabbing something utterly irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Napolitano has been yanked off the air indefinitely by Fox for declaring on the air that a British intelligence agency was complicit in wiretapping Donald J. Trump&#8217;s campaign office in New York City. The agency, according to the former judge, was working at the behest of former President Obama; Napolitano, therefore, was giving credence to the scurrilous charge leveled by Trump that Obama had ordered the wiretap at Trump Tower.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director James Comey debunked Trump&#8217;s tweet today in a congressional hearing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hollywood\/la-fi-ct-napolitano-fox-news-20170320-story.html\">Fox gives judge the boot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we have this (so-called) judge keeping this lie alive by suggesting that the Brits played a role in an event that &#8212; according to Comey &#8212; <em>did not occur<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Fox boots this clown off the air for keeps, even though he most likely would end up somewhere else spouting such reckless right-wing bile.<\/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>Readers of this blog know that I am not likely to offer many compliments to the Fox News Channel. I am about to break tradition and declare that Fox has done the right thing by taking a loudmouth &#8220;legal analyst&#8221; off the air for blabbing something utterly irresponsible. Andrew Napolitano has been yanked off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So long, Judge Napolitano<\/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":[8,10],"tags":[379,1424,1693,1790,6242],"class_list":["post-20499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-media-news","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-james-comey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499","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=20499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20501,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499\/revisions\/20501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}