{"id":10322,"date":"2019-05-31T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10322"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:22:38","slug":"dump-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10322","title":{"rendered":"Dump FOX News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Justin Amash, the only Republican to publicly support impeachment, held a Town Hall event a few days ago in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was asked by attendees to explain his support for removing Trump from office.  Naturally, he cited the Mueller Report.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cathy Garnaat, a Republican who supported Amash and the president said she was <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">upset about Amash\u2019s position<\/span> but wanted to hear his reasoning. She said that she will definitely support Trump in 2020 but that Tuesday night was <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the first time she had heard that the Mueller report didn\u2019t completely exonerate the president<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">I was surprised to hear there was anything negative<\/span> in the Mueller report at all about President Trump. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">I hadn\u2019t heard that before<\/span>,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I\u2019ve mainly listened to conservative news and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">I hadn\u2019t heard anything negative about that report and President Trump has been exonerated<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One hopes that an unseemly suspicion will trickle into Ms. Garnaat&#8217;s mind: <i>Could FOX News be lying to us?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I am convinced that the only way to get the truth to the poorly-informed is to tell them frankly and unambiguously that we are not talking about &#8216;spin,&#8217; we are not talking about plausible alternative interpretations of facts, we are talking about lies.  Lies.  L-I-E-S.  <i><b>FOX News lies to you.  You are being played for suckers.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/DM61n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">And then hand them a copy of the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Justin Amash, the only Republican to publicly support impeachment, held a Town Hall event a few days ago in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was asked by attendees to explain his support for removing Trump from office. Naturally, he cited &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10322\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10326,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}