{"id":13852,"date":"2018-01-19T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:36:30","slug":"squeezing-whose-balls-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/19\/squeezing-whose-balls-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeezing Whose Balls?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader is discouraged at the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/18\/squeezing-whose-balls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blame game<\/a> in Washington in connection with the possible government shutdown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">The GOP got its message out first and more loudly, and its adherents are more likely to believe that message. So it doesn&#8217;t matter that the truth is the GOP is screwing the children worse than the Democrats; the GOP has again won the propaganda war in the minds of the largely illiterate populace of this country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">Yup, and MPR reported this morning that if the government shuts down, it will be the minority Dems who caused it. With friends like that, who needs enemies?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the reader appears, inadvertently, to be in the same camp as <em><strong>MPR<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s to be done? Direct outcry, I think. Has the reader called up <em><strong>MPR<\/strong><\/em> and complained vociferously? Perhaps made it onto one of the several talk-shows to strongly suggest that the <em><strong>MPR<\/strong><\/em> reporters should get both sides of the story? Share posts such as mine on Facebook?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the truth must be shouted from the rooftops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader is discouraged at the blame game in Washington in connection with the possible government shutdown: The GOP got its message out first and more loudly, and its adherents are more likely to believe that message. So it doesn&#8217;t matter that the truth is the GOP is screwing the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/19\/squeezing-whose-balls-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13853,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions\/13853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}