{"id":38737,"date":"2019-09-05T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38737"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:15:43","slug":"just-say-it-mr-potus-say-you-messed-up-its-easy-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38737","title":{"rendered":"Just say it, Mr. POTUS: Say you messed up; it&#8217;s easy to do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23HurricaneDorian%20%23NationalWeatherService&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dorian-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38738\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dorian-map-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dorian-map-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dorian-map-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dorian-map.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, Mr. President. Really and truly, it&#8217;s all right if you make a mistake. It&#8217;s OK if you misspeak.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I am a severe critic of you and your presidency. I take a back seat to no one in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>However, I would be more than happy to give you a pass if you were to say you messed up with that silly misstatement about Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama. The National Weather Service &#8212; the experts on this stuff &#8212; said, um, &#8220;no&#8221; the storm would have no impact on &#8216;Bama.<\/p>\n<p>Why, though, did you double down on that goof? You produced that phony storm-charting map with the Sharpie line crossing over Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief, Mr. President. You are far from perfect. Indeed, in my view you are the farthest from perfect than any man who&#8217;s ever been elected to your high office. But, I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The point here is that it&#8217;s all right for you to acknowledge you made a mistake. I do not understand why you just cannot do so. Not even on something as trivial as misstating that one of our states was in harm&#8217;s way. You made it even worse by providing that phony-baloney notion that the weather gurus had placed Alabama in Dorian&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Honest to goodness, Mr. President, saying you made a mistake is a sign of strength. Everyone makes &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p><em>Even you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23HurricaneDorian%20%23NationalWeatherService&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;mon, Mr. President. Really and truly, it&#8217;s all right if you make a mistake. It&#8217;s OK if you misspeak. Look, I am a severe critic of you and your presidency. I take a back seat to no one in that regard. However, I would be more than happy to give you a pass if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just say it, Mr. POTUS: Say you messed up; it&#8217;s easy to do<\/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":[1424,8891,3217],"class_list":["post-38737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-dorian","tag-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737","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=38737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38739,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737\/revisions\/38739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}