{"id":699,"date":"2008-03-26T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/26\/michel-martin-on-speaking-up\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:51:21","slug":"michel-martin-on-speaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/26\/michel-martin-on-speaking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Martin on Speaking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5201175\">Michel Martin<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Tell Me More&#8221; show replaced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/\">BBC News World Service<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wamu.org\">WAMU<\/a> earlier this year, I was less than pleased.\u00c2\u00a0 And after listening to her first couple of shows, I was pretty sure that I wouldn&#8217;t have the radio on in the background during her timeslot.\u00c2\u00a0 But, over time, she&#8217;s either come into her own or I&#8217;ve just done a better job of listening &#8211; I now appreciate her as an excellent interviewer, and as someone who is unafraid of being direct on uncomfortable subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Today, she took a few minutes to offer an unflinching and clear eyed observation on the chattering class&#8217;s claim that they would have stood up and walked out of Rev. Wright&#8217;s now infamous sermons.\u00c2\u00a0  To wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have had it up to here with members of the commentariat who keep lecturing us about how they would <em>never<\/em> have tolerated the Rev. Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s more incendiary sermons, and they wonder why Barack Obama did. They would have walked on out [of the church].<\/p>\n<p>Can I just tell you? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Give it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89109217\">a listen<\/a>, or &#8211; at least &#8211; give it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89109217\">a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Michel Martin&#8216;s &#8220;Tell Me More&#8221; show replaced the BBC News World Service on WAMU earlier this year, I was less than pleased.\u00c2\u00a0 And after listening to her first couple of shows, I was pretty sure that I wouldn&#8217;t have the radio on in the background during her timeslot.\u00c2\u00a0 But, over time, she&#8217;s either come [&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":[2,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}