{"id":29476,"date":"2018-04-30T21:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29476"},"modified":"2018-04-30T21:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:46:53","slug":"now-the-trumpsters-are-angry-at-wolfs-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29476","title":{"rendered":"Now the Trumpsters are angry? At Wolf&#8217;s insults?"},"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>I have stated my piece about comedian Michelle Wolf&#8217;s hideous performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments were not funny; they were tasteless; they were vulgar. I switched the channel after watching it for about 10 minutes the other evening.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now for the <em>critics<\/em> of Wolf&#8217;s monologue.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them are conservatives and archconservatives who for whatever reason seem all too willing to give Donald John Trump a pass for his own version of humorless tastelessness and vulgarity.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, these folks need to look inward as well as at their guy, the president of the United States. They need to understand that what&#8217;s unacceptable for one individual should be equally unacceptable for a critic of that individual.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf&#8217;s comments were in reality no worse than many of the things that have poured forth from the president&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>High Plains Blogger was critical of Trump when he:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made fun of a reporter with a serious physical disability.<\/li>\n<li>Referred to certain female celebrities as &#8220;fat pigs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Denigrated the sacrifice of a Gold Star Family because of their Muslim faith.<\/li>\n<li>Suggested that Sen. John McCain was a Vietnam War hero &#8220;only because he was captured&#8221; by the North Vietnamese. &#8220;I like those who aren&#8217;t captured. OK?&#8221; Trump said.<\/li>\n<li>Poked fun at the physical appearance of several of his Republican primary opponents in 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On and on it goes. I just want to make the point that I am proud to exempt High Plains Blogger from the List of Hypocrites who are newly offended by the joke spewage of a comedian while looking the other way when such nastiness comes from the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>There. I&#8217;m out.<\/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 have stated my piece about comedian Michelle Wolf&#8217;s hideous performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Her comments were not funny; they were tasteless; they were vulgar. I switched the channel after watching it for about 10 minutes the other evening. OK, now for the critics of Wolf&#8217;s monologue. Most of them are conservatives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now the Trumpsters are angry? At Wolf&#8217;s insults?<\/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":[3],"tags":[7731,1134,1424,1941,2546,7728],"class_list":["post-29476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-archconservatives","tag-conservatives","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-john-mccain","tag-michelle-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476","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=29476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29477,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476\/revisions\/29477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}