{"id":7901,"date":"2018-04-29T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2018-04-29T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T23:20:07","slug":"no-apology-for-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7901","title":{"rendered":"No apology for Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>Comedienne Michelle Wolf delivered a monologue at last evening&#8217;s WHCA dinner that savaged, especially, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.  Sanders, as everyone who pays attention knows perfectly well, doesn&#8217;t merely spin or shade things; she lies.  That is, she knowingly says untrue things and tries to pass them off as reality.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/widget\/video-embed\/1221713987893\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t very funny and, when it is, it is so in only the narrow I-can&#8217;t-decide-whether-to-laugh-or-cry sense.  The reason this doesn&#8217;t work is that, like her boss, Sanders actually <i>is<\/i> a brazen and shameless liar and, once again like her boss, she immediately attacks the character of anybody who calls her on the lies.  It&#8217;s like trying to make fun of a pus-soaked bandage; how do you do it?<\/p>\n<p>Granted, her father is both a preacher and a politician, so she wasn&#8217;t raised with a good character role-model to hand.  But that&#8217;s her problem, and there is no good reason why it should be our problem.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; my vote is for no apology.  She is a liar, and she had it coming.  She&#8217;s lucky, in my judgment, that she can walk in the public streets without passersby throwing empty bottles at her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. Comedienne Michelle Wolf delivered a monologue at last evening&#8217;s WHCA dinner that savaged, especially, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Sanders, as everyone who pays attention knows perfectly well, doesn&#8217;t merely spin or shade things; she lies. That is, she knowingly says &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7901\">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\/7901"}],"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=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}