{"id":50024,"date":"2022-08-14T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50024"},"modified":"2022-08-13T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T20:02:00","slug":"qotd-the-2016-us-election-was-a-rejection-of-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/08\/14\/qotd-the-2016-us-election-was-a-rejection-of-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The 2016 US election was a rejection of the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s a surprising report: President Trump’s support is actually rising<\/em><\/a> after his attack on “The Squad”.<\/p>\n

The rise in support isn’t the surprising part. The surprising part is that the Media still find this surprising.<\/p>\n

Not to toot my own horn too much here, but I’ve been writing about this since 2015 … “Make America Great Again” was the Trump campaign’s official slogan, but unofficially \u2014 and much, much more effectively \u2014 it was: “Fuck the Media”. The 2016 election is known far and wide as “The Great Fuck You”, but somehow, some way, almost everyone still fails to grasp that it wasn’t the Democrats who got told to fuck off. It wasn’t even the “Progressives”. It was The Media. The Great Fuck You was aimed entirely at the Media<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Severian, “Which Hand Holds the Whip?”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2019-07-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a surprising report: President Trump’s support is actually rising after his attack on “The Squad”. The rise in support isn’t the surprising part. The surprising part is that the Media still find this surprising. Not to toot my own horn too much here, but I’ve been writing about this since 2015 … “Make America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[1037,477,213,1462,101],"class_list":["post-50024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-severian","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-d0Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75646,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024\/revisions\/75646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}