{"id":11154,"date":"2019-10-12T05:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T09:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2019-10-12T05:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T09:47:39","slug":"sad-tweet-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11154","title":{"rendered":"Sad tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Even in our current polarized nation, it&#39;s my hope that the facts will win the day, that the truth will always matter, that journalism and journalists will thrive.&quot; Watch Shepard Smith announce he&#39;s leaving Fox News after 23 years with the network. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7WCpYc6Re\">https:\/\/t.co\/a7WCpYc6Re<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJGXRlLUI9\">pic.twitter.com\/HJGXRlLUI9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1182802411129331714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Multiple news accounts, including the link above, are reporting that Shepard Smith is leaving FOX News because he just couldn&#8217;t take the nonstop lies and propaganda any longer.  It&#8217;s believable, because he was, conspicuously, a craftsman who cared about accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine he believed &#8212; until recently, I mean &#8212; the same thing that a lot of the professionals in the Trump administration doubtless believed: This, too, shall pass; just hold on a while longer, and sanity will be restored.  Nope.  What is now called &#8216;conservatism&#8217; is no more or better than the nihilist vandalism of a death-wish, and it cannot be reasoned with or accommodated; it must be defeated, bludgeoned into insensibility, irrevocably cast out of decent company.<\/p>\n<p>H.L. Mencken had it right: &#8220;The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille; if it fails, they will devour it.&#8221;  Well, the barbarians are at the table with napkins tucked into their collars, knife and fork in hand, snouts twitching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Even in our current polarized nation, it&#39;s my hope that the facts will win the day, that the truth will always matter, that journalism and journalists will thrive.&quot; Watch Shepard Smith announce he&#39;s leaving Fox News after 23 years with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11154\">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\/11154"}],"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=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}