{"id":7758,"date":"2017-01-23T08:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2017-01-23T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:09:44","slug":"a-little-difficult-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/23\/a-little-difficult-to-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Difficult To Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my Arts Editor and I were watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>WCCO<\/strong><\/em><\/a> news, one of the local news stations, on their nightly broadcast, and one of the two co-anchors, Frank Vascellaro, covered yesterday&#8217;s little controversy with Trump&#8217;s advisor Conway concerning <em>alternative facts<\/em>. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2017\/01\/22\/kellyanne-conway-alternative-fact-meet-the-press-sot.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">CNN&#8217;s coverage<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; I haven&#8217;t found a clip of Frank.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cbsminnesota.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/web-frank-vascellaro.jpg?resize=455%2C341\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Frankie V &#8211; my hero!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then, as they went to the next story, Frank started coughing. First into the live mic, and then, when they turned that one off, I could hear it echoing throughout the studio. His co-anchor covered for him for about 3 minutes, and when he did return, he looked a little glassy-eyed.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me the media is really finding it hard to swallow the Trump Administration so far.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Frank continues to gag. An honest reaction to extremism is an important part of the news casting process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my Arts Editor and I were watching the WCCO news, one of the local news stations, on their nightly broadcast, and one of the two co-anchors, Frank Vascellaro, covered yesterday&#8217;s little controversy with Trump&#8217;s advisor Conway concerning alternative facts. (Here&#8217;s CNN&#8217;s coverage\u00a0&#8211; I haven&#8217;t found a clip of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/23\/a-little-difficult-to-swallow\/\"> 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-7758","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\/7758","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=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}