{"id":30667,"date":"2017-04-19T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30667"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:48:01","slug":"does-the-truth-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30667","title":{"rendered":"Does The Truth Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/04\/18\/ap-changes-fresno-shooters-words-from-allahu-akbar-removes-islam-reference\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about the reporting of the recent shooting in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fresno, California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=36.7477777778,-119.7725&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=36.7477777778,-119.7725 (Fresno%2C%20California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Fresno, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Associated Press edited the words of a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Muslim\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Muslim<\/a> man\u00a0who allegedly killed three <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">white people<\/a> in downtown Fresno <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tuesday Afternoon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/The%2BMoody%2BBlues\/Tuesday%2BAfternoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lastfm\">Tuesday afternoon<\/a> and shouted\u00a0\u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Takbir\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takbir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Allahu Akbar<\/a>!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The suspect, 39-year-old Kori Ali <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Muhammad\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=24.4675611111,39.6114388889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=24.4675611111,39.6114388889 (Muhammad)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Muhammad<\/a>, holds fervent anti-Trump beliefs according to his social media profile, and he told police afterward that he hates white people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Rather than reporting the gunman\u2019s literal words, however, the AP reported the gunman as saying \u201cGod is great.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"David Duke\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Duke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">David Duke<\/a> made a racist statement saying &#8216;n***s are inferior&#8217;, would the media report it as &#8216;white people are wonderful&#8217;? I don&#8217;t think so. Yet that is essentially what the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Associated Press\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Associated_Press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Associated Press (AP)<\/a> did. By translating the phrase into English, the report misleads the reader into believing that some sort of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Christian fundamentalism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_fundamentalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Christian fundamentalist<\/a> with a grudge against President Trump killed these people. There is no way an ordinary person would interpret this as an act of domestic terrorism by a radical Muslim (which it was) from the AP report.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Daily Caller posted an article about the reporting of the recent shooting in Fresno, California. The article reports: The Associated Press edited the words of a Muslim man\u00a0who allegedly killed three white people in downtown Fresno Tuesday afternoon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[322,30,10024,109,7015],"class_list":["post-30667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-associated-press","tag-california","tag-fresno","tag-muslim","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30668,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions\/30668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}