{"id":10677,"date":"2023-05-13T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:44:19","slug":"enough-with-the-bellyaching-over-cnns-trump-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10677","title":{"rendered":"Enough With the Bellyaching Over CNN\u2019s Trump Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;in principle, a Trump interview was a good idea because it\u2019s never a mistake for the press to confront newsmakers, even if the newsmaker lies about the integrity of the 2020 election, which Trump did. Even if he mocks the justice system because it has held against him, which Trump did. Even if he uses the rhetorical devises of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenmercieca\/status\/1656471293754056704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ad hominem, ad populum, ad baculum<\/a>&nbsp;to savage his foes, as Trump did. Even if he insults the interviewer, which Trump did (\u201cYou\u2019re a nasty person,\u201d he said to Collins). Even if he refuses to answer simple questions about his stand on abortion, which Trump repeatedly did. And even if he offers his self-serving hallucinations about the events of January 6 as the truth, which Trump did.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Trump, after all, leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/polls-show-trump-big-lead-desantis-biden-different-story-rcna80828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republican presidential polls<\/a>&nbsp;by a wide margin. A genuine news outlet can\u2019t avert its eyes during a campaign just because a candidate is malevolent, duplicitous, cruel and deceitful.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/05\/11\/trump-cnn-town-hall-reaction-column-00096507\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/05\/11\/trump-cnn-town-hall-reaction-column-00096507<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;in principle, a Trump interview was a good idea because it\u2019s never a mistake for the press to confront newsmakers, even if the newsmaker lies about the integrity of the 2020 election, which Trump did. Even if he mocks the justice system because it has held against him, which Trump did. Even if he uses the rhetorical devises of ad hominem, ad populum, ad baculum to savage his foes, as Trump did. Even if he insults the interviewer, which Trump did (\u201cYou\u2019re a nasty person,\u201d he said to Collins). Even if he refuses to answer simple questions about his stand on abortion, which Trump repeatedly did. And even if he offers his self-serving hallucinations about the events of January 6 as the truth, which Trump did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump, after all, leads the Republican presidential polls by a wide margin. A genuine news outlet can\u2019t avert its eyes during a campaign just because a candidate is malevolent, duplicitous, cruel and deceitful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1878,221,132,170],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-lies","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}