{"id":371173,"date":"2018-07-28T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-iron-fist-tiny-hand\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:30:14","slug":"roaming-charges-iron-fist-tiny-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-iron-fist-tiny-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Iron Fist, Tiny Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>+ A couple of intrepid reporters with Fox and Friends ventured down to Louisiana this week to record some oral history with Trump voters and interviewed a woman at the Butter Krisp Diner in Covington who declared:\u00a0\u201cI want a president who\u2019s going to rule with an iron fist\u2014 finally. Someboy who\u2019s going to stand up for America.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I want a president who&#8217;s going to rule with an iron fist\u2014 finally. Someboy who&#8217;s going to stand up for America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diners in Louisiana talk politics, the economy and jobs on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DfV8XE8pAV\">pic.twitter.com\/DfV8XE8pAV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1022431841482166272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But what if that Iron Fist is made of a Tiny Hand?<\/p>\n<p>+ The much-anticipated\u00a0Pompeo Maximus hearing before the Senate showed both parties (and Pompeo) trying to be more hawkish than the other on Russia and Iran and slavish in their devotion to NATO.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0After about 15 minutes, MSDNC broke away from the Pompeo hearing to replay the Cohen\/Trump tape 15 times. Why? Perhaps because Pompeo undermined their 24\/7 narrative by spending most of his time beating his chest about Russia.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0Yemen\u2019s not a \u201ccovert war\u201d like Afghanistan in the early 1980s. It only seems that way because MSDNC chooses <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/action-alert-its-been-over-a-year-since-msnbc-has-mentioned-us-war-in-yemen\/\">not to cover it<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>+ In the last year, MSDNC has done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/07\/25\/msnbc-has-done-455-stormy-daniels-segments-in-the-last-year-but-none-on-the-war-in-yemen\/\">455 segments<\/a> on Stormy Daniels and none on Yemen.\u00a0I\u2019m all for Stormy Daniels, but she\u2019d probably get the Nobel Peace Prize if she went to Yemen for the weekend so that MSDNC and CNN would cover the US-backed genocidal war going on there \u2026<\/p>\n<p>+&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/27\/roaming-charges-iron-fist-tiny-hand\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+ A couple of intrepid reporters with Fox and Friends ventured down to Louisiana this week to record some oral history with Trump voters and interviewed a woman at the Butter Krisp Diner in Covington who declared:\u00a0\u201cI want a president who\u2019s going to rule with an iron fist\u2014 finally. Someboy who\u2019s going to stand up [&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-371173","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\/371173","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=371173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}