{"id":1416,"date":"2023-04-24T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2023-04-24T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:41:58","slug":"you-look-like-a-smart-fella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Look Like a Smart Fella&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somehow this catch phrase of hucksters going back over a century (at least according to old black &amp; white movies) has morphed over time into something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They want us to believe [rational claim supported by abundant credible evidence], but we are too smart for that.  And we will show them that [reasonable approach to dealing with clear problem] will not be tolerated by real Americans like us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some variation on this has served as a mantra for each of Fox News&#8217;s faux journalists for decades.  Carlson is only one popular purveyor of this snake oil on Fox News and other beneficiary-subsidized propaganda outlets in this country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today he was let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems to me as comparable to a Band-Aid applied to a compound fracture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow this catch phrase of hucksters going back over a century (at least according to old black &amp; white movies) has morphed over time into something like: &#8220;They want us to believe [rational claim supported by abundant credible evidence], but we are too smart for that. And we will show them that [reasonable approach to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}