{"id":364583,"date":"2018-06-08T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-saving-grace\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:20:47","slug":"trumps-saving-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-saving-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Saving Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102776\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-31-at-12.04.43-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"279\"  \/><br \/>What a nauseating spectacle \u2014 the language police at CNN and MSNBC castigating Samantha Bee for calling Ivanka Trump a \u201cfeckless cunt!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their producers should have told them that if truth isn\u2019t a defense, it ought to be, and that prissiness \u00fcber alles is for self-righteous prigs.<\/p>\n<p>She said \u201cfeckless,\u201d not, as was sometimes reported, \u201cfucking.\u201d Part of the confusion may be that on those liberal (actually centrist) networks, \u201cthe f-word,\u201d like \u201cthe c-word,\u201d is routinely spelled out when mentioned at all.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether this is because the network bosses are worried that c-h-i-l-d-r-e-n might be watching.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies to Kinky Friedman for that; it is a relief, in times like these, to think of the immortal Kinkster.<\/p>\n<p>It could all change in the blink of an eye, should the T-word give the Saudis and the Israelis the war against Iran that they yearn for, but, for the time being, George W. Bush is still Number One in one respect: he has done more harm in the Middle East even than Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, though, it has been clear since November 2016 that W would hold \u201cthe worst president ever\u201d title for no more than eight years. With Trump\u2019s election, he has found his level; he is a Number Two.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s idea of good taste is a parody of a fifties Playboy reader\u2019s. W\u2019s tastes are more refined. He is even able to appreciate Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys.<\/p>\n<p>Trump doesn\u2019t have enough humanity for that. The only Friedman he can appreciate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/08\/trumps-saving-grace\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a nauseating spectacle \u2014 the language police at CNN and MSNBC castigating Samantha Bee for calling Ivanka Trump a \u201cfeckless cunt!\u201d Their producers should have told them that if truth isn\u2019t a defense, it ought to be, and that prissiness \u00fcber alles is for self-righteous prigs. She said \u201cfeckless,\u201d not, as was sometimes reported, [&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-364583","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\/364583","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=364583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}