{"id":142,"date":"2006-11-16T22:04:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/16\/cnns-finest\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T03:04:48","slug":"cnns-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/16\/cnns-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters brings us <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200611150004\">this gem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/issues_topics\/search_results?qstring=glenn+beck\">Glenn Beck<\/a> interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15613050\/GT1\/8717\/\">elected<\/a> to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could &#8220;have five minutes here where we&#8217;re just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table.&#8221; After Ellison agreed, Beck said: &#8220;I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, &#8216;Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.&#8217; &#8221; Beck added: &#8220;I&#8217;m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that&#8217;s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to think that CNN is supposedly the <em>left<\/em>-leaning network . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters brings us this gem: On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could &#8220;have five minutes here where we&#8217;re just politically incorrect and I play the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}