{"id":29565,"date":"2020-07-14T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29565"},"modified":"2020-07-14T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:25:11","slug":"word-of-the-day-581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/14\/word-of-the-day-581\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fuliginous<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pertaining to or resembling\u00a0<a title=\"soot\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/soot\">soot<\/a>\u00a0in such\u00a0<a title=\"feature\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/feature\">features<\/a>\u00a0as colour,\u00a0<a title=\"texture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/texture\">texture<\/a>\u00a0or taste;\u00a0<a title=\"sooty\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sooty\">sooty<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"dusky\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dusky\">dusky<\/a>.\u00a0<span class=\"defdate\">[from 16th c.]<\/span>\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fuliginous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiktionary<\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/07\/14\/tucker-carlson-whitewashes-racism-his-show-his-former-top-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Tucker Carlson whitewashes the racism of his show and his former top writer<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Erik Wemple, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a network of ideologues, Carlson occupies a particularly fuliginous fringe. Even the network\u2019s leaders in Saturday\u2019s note to colleagues characterized Neff\u2019s postings as \u201cdeeply offensive racist, sexist and homophobic.\u201d On the other hand, Carlson apparently couldn\u2019t even bring himself to echo those same denunciations. That\u2019s because Carlson has spent his entire career as a Fox News prime-time host \u2014 nearly four years \u2014 skewering those who call out President Trump for being, well, racist, sexist and other offensive things. Those spotters of hatred are a prime target for Carlson, a lure for viewers. There was no way that he was going to use his own show to call out racism by its name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuliginous: Pertaining to or resembling\u00a0soot\u00a0in such\u00a0features\u00a0as colour,\u00a0texture\u00a0or taste;\u00a0sooty,\u00a0dusky.\u00a0[from 16th c.]\u00a0[Wiktionary] Noted in &#8220;Tucker Carlson whitewashes the racism of his show and his former top writer,&#8221; Erik Wemple, WaPo: In a network of ideologues, Carlson occupies a particularly fuliginous fringe. Even the network\u2019s leaders in Saturday\u2019s note to colleagues characterized Neff\u2019s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/14\/word-of-the-day-581\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29565","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\/29565","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=29565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29566,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29565\/revisions\/29566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}