{"id":4261,"date":"2010-08-18T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2010-08-18T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:58:51","slug":"i-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"I Was Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4262\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 120px;\" title=\"jim_crow\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jim_crow.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jim_crow.jpg 459w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jim_crow-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jim_crow-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/>So, it wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3954\" target=\"_self\">Rush who broke hate radio&#8217;s N-word barrier<\/a> after all.\u00a0 It was <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201008120045\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Schlessinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be consequences?\u00a0 \u00c0 la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/04\/12\/national\/main2675273.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Don Imus<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In my earlier post, I expressed the opinion that Rush could get away with it.\u00a0 Laura, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Maybe if Rush backs her up?<\/p>\n<p>I must say, though . . . Laura&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3313\">Palinesque &#8220;two wrongs make a right&#8221; rationale<\/a> is impeccable: Hey, they say it, why can&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to post-racial America!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update (8\/18\/10):<\/span><\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/17\/dr-laura-schlessinger-to-end-radio-show\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">Laura quits<\/a> (to spend more time with her beloved Aryan brothers and sisters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it wasn&#8217;t Rush who broke hate radio&#8217;s N-word barrier after all.\u00a0 It was Laura Schlessinger. Will there be consequences?\u00a0 \u00c0 la Don Imus? In my earlier post, I expressed the opinion that Rush could get away with it.\u00a0 Laura, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Maybe if Rush backs her up? I must say, though . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}