{"id":31443,"date":"2017-08-29T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31443"},"modified":"2017-08-29T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:14:02","slug":"when-news-media-forgets-to-check-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31443","title":{"rendered":"When News Media Forgets To Check Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/08\/28\/pastor-osteen-shuts-church-amid-flooding-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> posted an article yesterday criticizing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Joel Osteen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joel_Osteen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Joel Osteen<\/a> for closing his church to refugees from the hurricane in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Houston\" href=\"http:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Houston<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know enough about Joel Osteen to compliment or criticize his ministry, but I tend to get annoyed when criticism is unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox25boston.com\/news\/trending-now\/lakewood-church-respond-to-claims-he-wont-open-megachurch-as-a-storm-shelter\/599601610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston 25 News<\/a> posted pictures of Joel Osteen&#8217;s church at the present time. Would you seek shelter here?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JoelOsteen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JoelOsteen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JoelOsteen.png 642w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JoelOsteen-271x300.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, the church has posted on its Twitter page that it is coordinating with the city and collecting supplies to distribute to Houston area shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The media loves to criticize anyone claiming to be a Christian. As I said, I am not familiar with this man&#8217;s ministry, but obviously the criticism in this case is totally bogus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Post posted an article yesterday criticizing Joel Osteen for closing his church to refugees from the hurricane in Houston. I don&#8217;t know enough about Joel Osteen to compliment or criticize his ministry, but I tend to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31443\">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":[3702,11061,657,2561],"class_list":["post-31443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-houston","tag-joel-osteen","tag-new-york-post","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31443","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=31443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31445,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31443\/revisions\/31445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}