{"id":8757,"date":"2020-06-07T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T05:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2020-06-07T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T05:49:49","slug":"meghan-and-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/07\/meghan-and-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan and the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often feel <strong>Meghan McCain <\/strong>is the target of unfair vitriol.&nbsp; But she most certainly stepped in it.&nbsp; Last week, <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> was on vacation \u2013 something which really fucked up my schedule.&nbsp; It\u2019s hard enough for me to keep track of what day it is.&nbsp; Eating breakfast without <em>The View<\/em> only happens on weekends!&nbsp; After last week\u2019s riots, Megan posted, \u201cMy neighborhood in Manhattan is eviscerated and looks like a war zone.\u201d&nbsp; The first sign that things were not as they appeared was that the <em>Tweet <\/em>was posted from Virginia!&nbsp; Then someone <em>Tweeted <\/em>back: \u201cMeghan, we live in the same building, and I just walked outside.&nbsp; It\u2019s fine.\u201d&nbsp; McCain backpedaled (while also doubling down): \u201cI sent a <em>Tweet <\/em>yesterday based on the news.\u201d&nbsp; Did she?&nbsp; She didn\u2019t say, \u201cI hear my neighborhood in Manhattan is eviscerated and looks like a war zone.\u201d&nbsp; Her initial <em>Tweet <\/em>was presented as a fact \u2013 based on no facts at all.<\/p>\n<p>I have trouble with people who can\u2019t simply say, \u201cOops, I was wrong \u2013 sorry.\u201d&nbsp; <strong>Roger Goodell<\/strong>, commissioner of the <em>NFL<\/em>, said, \u201cWe, the <em>NFL<\/em>, admit we were wrong for not listening to <em>NFL <\/em>players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest.&nbsp; We, the <em>NFL<\/em>, believe black lives matter.&nbsp; I personally protest with you and want to be part of the much needed change in this country.\u201d&nbsp; <em>Bravo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often feel Meghan McCain is the target of unfair vitriol.&nbsp; But she most certainly stepped in it.&nbsp; Last week, The View was on vacation \u2013 something which really fucked up my schedule.&nbsp; It\u2019s hard enough for me to keep track of what day it is.&nbsp; Eating breakfast without The View only happens on weekends!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}