{"id":366162,"date":"2018-06-21T00:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-you-think-were-so-innocent\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T23:17:48","slug":"what-you-think-were-so-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-you-think-were-so-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat? You Think We\u2019re So Innocent?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102888\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102888\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/640px-Kim_and_Trump_shaking_hands_at_the_red_carpet_during_the_DPRK\u2013USA_Singapore_Summit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/640px-Kim_and_Trump_shaking_hands_at_the_red_carpet_during_the_DPRK\u2013USA_Singapore_Summit.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/640px-Kim_and_Trump_shaking_hands_at_the_red_carpet_during_the_DPRK\u2013USA_Singapore_Summit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dan Scavino Jr. | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Channel surfing the corporate media\u2019s alleged \u201cnews\u201d broadcasts the other day I took note of a startling admission from Trump being interviewed about his meeting with Kim Jong-un. Assuming I\u2019d also see it on the other channels I didn\u2019t pay attention to which network was televising at that moment. I mention this oversight because Trump\u2019s words were astoundingly honest coming from the mouth of any elite overseer of the empire let alone the current oligarch in-chief\u2026and they were immediately disappeared from all outlets including the one which committed the \u00a0transgression. I wish I took note of which network it was. In response to media questions about his failure to address the dismal human rights record of North Korea Trump in his inimitable manner said \u201cWhat, you think we\u2019re so innocent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what residual naivete on my part allowed me to think for the moment that the corporate Ministry of Truth would willingly broadcast the maximum leader\u2019s words about our own nation\u2019s crimes against humanity but there it was. Not for long though. Such an admission of our own guilt in human affairs was an egregious infraction on the part of editors. Big Brother was not happy! Trump was quoted on this subject again and again on all networks but now his quotes were \u00a0limited to statements that \u201c\u2026 a lot of countries \u2026have similar records.\u201d Any hint of our own murderous actions was <em>verboten.\u00a0<\/em>The real fake news&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/20\/what-you-think-were-so-innocent\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Dan Scavino Jr. | CC BY 2.0 Channel surfing the corporate media\u2019s alleged \u201cnews\u201d broadcasts the other day I took note of a startling admission from Trump being interviewed about his meeting with Kim Jong-un. Assuming I\u2019d also see it on the other channels I didn\u2019t pay attention to which network was televising [&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-366162","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\/366162","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=366162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}