{"id":29509,"date":"2018-05-02T00:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29509"},"modified":"2018-05-02T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:40:04","slug":"pictures-tell-a-graphic-story-of-crassness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29509","title":{"rendered":"Pictures tell a graphic story of crassness"},"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><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong>. The pictures attached to this blog are offensive. I&#8217;ll concede that instantly. I apologize for them. But they do serve to speak to a hypocrisy that swirls around the criticism of a comic who delivered some offensive remarks to the White House Correspondents Dinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcJHvJVW0AEH5Z1.jpg-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29510\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcJHvJVW0AEH5Z1.jpg-large-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcJHvJVW0AEH5Z1.jpg-large-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcJHvJVW0AEH5Z1.jpg-large-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DcJHvJVW0AEH5Z1.jpg-large.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am one of Michelle Wolf&#8217;s critics. I disliked the tone of her remarks to the correspondents dinner. I&#8217;ve made my case already, albeit to mixed reviews among those who have read them.<\/p>\n<p>But I will concede as well that they were downright quaint and pale compared to what those on the other side of the political divide have said about those with whom they disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Does this excuse Wolf&#8217;s monologue? No. It doesn&#8217;t. My hope would have been that she could have remained on a higher road while skewering the president and his White House staff.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the hypocrisy of the indignation emanating from the right and the far right is, um, quite ironic.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you think?<\/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>Spoiler alert. The pictures attached to this blog are offensive. I&#8217;ll concede that instantly. I apologize for them. But they do serve to speak to a hypocrisy that swirls around the criticism of a comic who delivered some offensive remarks to the White House Correspondents Dinner. I am one of Michelle Wolf&#8217;s critics. I disliked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pictures tell a graphic story of crassness<\/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],"tags":[1424,2349,7728,7727],"class_list":["post-29509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-islam","tag-michelle-wolf","tag-white-house-correspondents-dinner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509","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=29509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29511,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509\/revisions\/29511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}