{"id":30627,"date":"2018-06-29T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30627"},"modified":"2018-06-29T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T19:01:42","slug":"youre-even-less-funny-now-gov-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30627","title":{"rendered":"You’re even less funny now, Gov. Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott went to a gun range a year ago, shot a few rounds into a target and then bragged about the tight grouping of bullet holes he put into the piece of paper.<\/p>\n

As Time reported: \u201cI\u2019m gonna carry this around in case I see any reporters,\u201d according to the Texas Tribune.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

That’s a serious knee-slapper, ain’t it?<\/p>\n

I didn’t laugh at the time. I am seriously not laughing now in the wake of what happened Thursday in the newsroom of the Annapolis (Md.) Capital-Gazette, where five people were slaughtered by a gunman.<\/p>\n

Do you know what I’d like to hear now from Gov. Abbott? A statement of remorse over his tasteless quip. That would help quell at least some<\/em> of the hatred that’s being fomented against members of the media by politicians in high places.<\/p>\n

Here’s how Time reported it. <\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think, Gov. Abbott?<\/p>\n\n

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott went to a gun range a year ago, shot a few rounds into a target and then bragged about the tight grouping of bullet holes he put into the piece of paper. As Time reported: \u201cI\u2019m gonna carry this around in case I see any reporters,\u201d according to the Texas Tribune.\u00a0 … Continue reading You’re even less funny now, Gov. Abbott<\/span> →<\/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":[18],"tags":[7848,2006,2037,4728],"class_list":["post-30627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-annapolis-shooting","tag-greg-abbott","tag-gun-violence","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30627","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=30627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30634,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30627\/revisions\/30634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}