{"id":3618,"date":"2013-09-30T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2013-09-30T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:47:01","slug":"radio-blowhard-goes-beyond-the-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"Radio blowhard goes beyond the pale"},"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>Mike Malloy offers incontrovertible proof that radio talk show hosts should be taken for what they are: blowhards and gasbags.<\/p>\n<p>Malloy is a liberal blowhard based out of Atlanta who recently offered a view that suggests he would favor actually killing at least one member of the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.westernjournalism.com\/radio-host-advocates-murder-ted-cruz-mike-lee\/<\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;killing,&#8221; I mean exactly that. Kill them dead.<\/p>\n<p>He was commenting on a conservative talk show hosts view that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had stabbed Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the back during Cruz&#8217;s pseudo-filibuster recently. Malloy suggested that he&#8217;d &#8220;provide the butcher knife.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Was it rhetorical excess? In the extreme, if that&#8217;s all he meant it to be. Some folks have construed it to mean that he actually wants to kill Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t belabor the point. Suffice to say that this kind of idiotic rhetoric must be condemned in the strongest terms possible.<\/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>Mike Malloy offers incontrovertible proof that radio talk show hosts should be taken for what they are: blowhards and gasbags. Malloy is a liberal blowhard based out of Atlanta who recently offered a view that suggests he would favor actually killing at least one member of the U.S. Senate. http:\/\/www.westernjournalism.com\/radio-host-advocates-murder-ted-cruz-mike-lee\/ By &#8220;killing,&#8221; I mean exactly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio blowhard goes beyond the pale<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","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=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}