{"id":41102,"date":"2020-02-06T01:58:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41102"},"modified":"2020-02-06T01:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T01:58:04","slug":"why-not-honor-brig-gen-mcgee-instead-of-daddy-dittohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41102","title":{"rendered":"Why not honor Brig. Gen. McGee instead of Daddy Dittohead?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MedalofFreedom%20%23SOTU%20%23TuskegeeAirmen&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/charlesmcgee-sotu-02052020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41103\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/charlesmcgee-sotu-02052020-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/charlesmcgee-sotu-02052020-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/charlesmcgee-sotu-02052020-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/charlesmcgee-sotu-02052020-672x372.jpg 672w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/charlesmcgee-sotu-02052020.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an original thought that comes exclusively from this blog, but I&#8217;ll offer it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If Donald John Trump was so intent Tuesday night on handing out a Presidential Medal of Freedom, why didn&#8217;t he award one to the 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman, Brig. Gen. Charles McGee, who was in the VIP box listening to the president deliver the State of the Union speech?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Gen. McGee is far more worthy of the nation&#8217;s highest and most exalted civilian honor that Rush &#8220;Daddy Dittohead&#8221; Limbaugh, who received the medal in a surprise ceremony during the speech.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am aware that Donald Trump saluted Gen. McGee for the heroic service he performed during World War II, in Korea and in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. McGee surely deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MedalofFreedom%20%23SOTU%20%23TuskegeeAirmen&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t an original thought that comes exclusively from this blog, but I&#8217;ll offer it anyway. If Donald John Trump was so intent Tuesday night on handing out a Presidential Medal of Freedom, why didn&#8217;t he award one to the 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman, Brig. Gen. Charles McGee, who was in the VIP box listening to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why not honor Brig. Gen. McGee instead of Daddy Dittohead?<\/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":[1424,3721,4314,9204],"class_list":["post-41102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidential-medal-of-freedom","tag-sotu","tag-tuskegee-airmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102","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=41102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41104,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102\/revisions\/41104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}