{"id":359720,"date":"2018-05-04T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-it-was-so-easy-to-nuke\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:11:00","slug":"why-it-was-so-easy-to-nuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-it-was-so-easy-to-nuke\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It Was So Easy To Nuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Leave it to a bunch of self-important self-righteous self-serious\u00a0<em>journalists<\/em>\u00a0to miss the whole point. (That\u2019s what they call themselves. They prefer the French word instead of the word that was used for 150 years\u2014\u201creporter.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about the now-infamous White House Correspondents Dinner at which Michelle Wolf lacerated some of the assembled guests, especially Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had to sit there taking the mean-spirited abuse because she wasn\u2019t given a rebuttal slot. (Don\u2019t call it a roast, as some of Michelle\u2019s defenders did. At a roast, the roastee speaks last. This was a comedy execution.)<\/p>\n<p>Even before it was over, various\u00a0<em>journalists<\/em>\u00a0had taken to the ramparts to either defend or condemn, with the stand-up comedy world chiming in to support Wolf\u2019s acidity and take-no-prisoners style, even if it humiliated people in the room, under the theory that her targets were people who \u201csigned up for it,\u201d while other\u00a0<em>journalists<\/em>\u2014mostly the mainstream of the mainstream\u2014chided Wolf for her lack of subtlety and politeness.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually glad that they self-describe as\u00a0<em>journalists<\/em>\u00a0so that we can more accurately distinguish them from reporters. Whoever these guys are who write the daily pieces about the nation\u2019s doom\u2014probably the same guys who announced the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/08\/business\/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death of objectivity<\/a>\u00a0as a standard\u2014have long since identified themselves as grim soldiers of code-word prose pretending to be detached observers. There was a time when nobody wanted the White House correspondent job because you were locked into pool reporting with a pack of loafers happy to regurgitate press releases while watching staged events from behind the purple ropes. Now, blessed with the greatest soap opera in White House history and an Oval Office more leaky than a paper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/05\/no_author\/why-it-was-so-easy-to-nuke-the-white-house-media-stuffed-shirt-dinner\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Leave it to a bunch of self-important self-righteous self-serious\u00a0journalists\u00a0to miss the whole point. (That\u2019s what they call themselves. They prefer the French word instead of the word that was used for 150 years\u2014\u201creporter.\u201d) I\u2019m talking about the now-infamous White House Correspondents Dinner at which Michelle Wolf lacerated some of the assembled guests, especially Sarah [&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-359720","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\/359720","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=359720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}