{"id":26891,"date":"2017-12-15T01:07:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26891"},"modified":"2017-12-15T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:08:11","slug":"good-question-who-cares-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26891","title":{"rendered":"Good question: Who cares about Omarosa?"},"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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Omarosa_Manigault_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26892\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Omarosa_Manigault_by_Gage_Skidmore-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Omarosa_Manigault_by_Gage_Skidmore-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Omarosa_Manigault_by_Gage_Skidmore-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Omarosa_Manigault_by_Gage_Skidmore-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Omarosa_Manigault_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who on earth actually cares whether Omarosa quit or was fired it&#8217;s the dumbest story eve<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This tweet came from CNBC correspondent and New York Times contributor John Harwood.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I have to agree wholeheartedly with this fellow. Yet the media are all agog over the departure of Omarosa Manigault Newman from Donald John Trump Sr.&#8217;s White House staff.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced that she quit. Then sources reported she and chief of staff John Kelly had an argument; Kelly canned her. Then she was shown the door by unnamed White House personnel.<\/p>\n<p>So, why the big deal, indeed over this individual&#8217;s departure? As near as I can tell, she didn&#8217;t even have a real job in the White House. Her title was a convoluted string of words: director of the Office of Public Liaison for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to explain to me: What in the world did she do?<\/p>\n<p>She drew a $180,000 annual salary for doing &#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p>Omarosa was a three-time &#8220;Apprentice&#8221; contestant who was fired three times by the show&#8217;s host, Donald John Trump Sr.<\/p>\n<p>OK. She&#8217;s now off the public payroll. May she now disappear, never to be heard from again. I know. It won&#8217;t happen that way. I am just hoping she does just go &#8230; away.<\/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>Who on earth actually cares whether Omarosa quit or was fired it&#8217;s the dumbest story eve This tweet came from CNBC correspondent and New York Times contributor John Harwood. Oh, I have to agree wholeheartedly with this fellow. Yet the media are all agog over the departure of Omarosa Manigault Newman from Donald John Trump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good question: Who cares about Omarosa?<\/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":[1042,1424,3360,7470],"class_list":["post-26891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cnbc","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times","tag-omarosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891","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=26891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26894,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions\/26894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}