{"id":343391,"date":"2018-01-12T03:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-not-to-unwind-a-clockwork-orange\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T03:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:17:14","slug":"how-not-to-unwind-a-clockwork-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-not-to-unwind-a-clockwork-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Unwind a Clockwork Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98883\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98883 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/alex-trump-by-beatrice-alcala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"392\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Illustration courtesy of Beatrice Alcala &amp; Substance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to [Michael] Wolff\u2019s book [\u201cFire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House\u201d], various White House staff, advisors and acquaintances referred to Trump as an idiot, dope, moron and dumb as shit. However, another said he could be a halfwit if he applied himself.<\/p>\n<p>~Humorist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennettalper.com\/\">Ben Alper<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Bottom line on top<\/em>: We might make more traction against the empire if we quit name-baiting Donald Trump. The empire will strike back if we fail to prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Our President may be an easy mark to ridicule but this publication is no joke. It\u2019s a forum for serious and informed discussion of (almost uniformly alarming) current events that mainstream media tiptoe around, not a venue for parody or satire. Its contributors are serious and well grounded in their self-selected domains of reality. Their articles are generally well sourced, high-minded, and come with an attitude. But when it comes to reporting or reflecting on accidental president Donald Trump, vexed authors can lapse into hyperbolic ad hominems that add little meat to the political stew we\u2019re in.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with the name-calling. We find Trump referred to here as the \u201cInsane Clown President,\u201d \u201cjackass,\u201d \u201cAgent Orange,\u201d \u201cDotard-in-Chief,\u201d and \u201cHair Furher,\u201d and that\u2019s just from one article. Other pejoratives gracing these pages include \u201chuckster,\u201d \u201ctangerine nightmare,\u201d \u201cbuffoonish mountebank,\u201d \u201cidiot,\u201d \u201cmiscreant,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/11\/how-not-to-unwind-a-clockwork-orange\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Illustration courtesy of Beatrice Alcala &amp; Substance. According to [Michael] Wolff\u2019s book [\u201cFire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House\u201d], various White House staff, advisors and acquaintances referred to Trump as an idiot, dope, moron and dumb as shit. However, another said he could be a halfwit if he applied himself. ~Humorist Ben Alper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}