{"id":2078,"date":"2020-01-23T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:46:12","slug":"fox-news-goes-to-desperate-lengths-to-gin-up-outrage-over-clip-of-vince-vaughn-chatting-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Fox News goes to desperate lengths to gin up outrage over clip of Vince Vaughn chatting with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Fox News\u2019s article<\/a> about how Vaughn supposedly \u201cfaces liberal outrage after he was seen with Trump during national championship game\u201d prominently features a tweet<\/a> from Washington Examiner staffer Siraj Hashmi, who is hardly a liberal, sarcastically quipping that \u201cLadies & gentlemen, I regret to inform you Vince Vaughn is CANCELED\u201d \u2014 but the tweet is presented in David Aaro\u2019s article as though Hashmi is a liberal who meant it earnestly.
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Hashmi later noted on Twitter that the Fox News article caused right-wing trolls to flood his Instagram page with abusive comments<\/a>. And the few other examples of \u201cliberal outrage\u201d in the piece were gleaned from the far fringes of Twitter. (Fox News still hasn\u2019t figured out that Hashmi isn\u2019t actually liberal as of Tuesday afternoon \u2014 his tweet was falsely cited as an example of \u201cliberal cancel culture\u201d<\/a> on Outnumbered<\/em>.)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“a few left-wing accounts did react to Burke\u2019s clip with comments like, \u201cSad. Vince Vaughn is one of my favorites. I always knew he was Republican but this, so gross … I don\u2019t need a Wedding Crashers<\/em> sequel anymore.\u201d But the idea that there was some sort of concerted liberal backlash to the clip is make-believe aimed at ginning up outrage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/14\/21065208\/vince-vaughn-trump-national-championship-game-fox-news-outrage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Fox News\u2019s article about how Vaughn supposedly \u201cfaces liberal outrage after he was seen with Trump during national championship game\u201d prominently features a tweet from Washington Examiner staffer Siraj Hashmi, who is hardly a liberal, sarcastically quipping that \u201cLadies & gentlemen, I regret to inform you Vince Vaughn is CANCELED\u201d \u2014 but the tweet is presented in David Aaro\u2019s article as though Hashmi is a liberal who meant it earnestly.<\/p>\n

Hashmi later noted on Twitter that the Fox News article caused right-wing trolls to flood his Instagram page with abusive comments. And the few other examples of \u201cliberal outrage\u201d in the piece were gleaned from the far fringes of Twitter. (Fox News still hasn\u2019t figured out that Hashmi isn\u2019t actually liberal as of Tuesday afternoon \u2014 his tweet was falsely cited as an example of \u201cliberal cancel culture\u201d on Outnumbered.)”<\/p>\n

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“a few left-wing accounts did react to Burke\u2019s clip with comments like, \u201cSad. Vince Vaughn is one of my favorites. I always knew he was Republican but this, so gross … I don\u2019t need a Wedding Crashers sequel anymore.\u201d But the idea that there was some sort of concerted liberal backlash to the clip is make-believe aimed at ginning up outrage.”<\/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":[305,322,324,136,323,325,328,327,326],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bias","tag-fox-news","tag-liberal","tag-media","tag-misleading","tag-outrage","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-vaughn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}