{"id":322,"date":"2008-11-28T06:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T06:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2008-11-28T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T06:36:59","slug":"political_correctness_gone_amo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Political Correctness Gone Amok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a short article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/022175.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>&nbsp;about the terrorist attacks during the past few days.&nbsp; The article, however, has a slightly different slant&#8211;it deals with the reporting.&nbsp; Power Line Blog is written by three lawyers, and sometimes they have amazing insight in what is happening in our world.&nbsp; Here is a quote from the article&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a screen grab of one of the Islamic terrorists who attacked Mumbai:<\/p>\n<p class=\"media\" jquery1227872211968=\"3\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/Mumbai-Terror-Attacks\/ss\/events\/wl\/112608mumbaiterroris;_ylt=Aknwj7PMTLlh91Q47iSx0xdpaP0E#photoViewer=\/081128\/photos_ts\/2008_11_27t192235_450x371_us_india_mumbai_shootings\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"288\" alt=\"2008_11_27t192235_450x371_us_india_mumbai_shootings.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/assets_c\/2008\/11\/2008_11_27t192235_450x371_us_india_mumbai_shootings-thumb-350x288.jpg\" width=\"350\" jquery1227872211968=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reuters&#8217; caption for the photo begins: &#8220;A suspected gunman walks outside the premises of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or Victoria Terminus railway station in Mumbai November 26, 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notice the object the terrorist is holding in his hands. It&#8217;s a gun. He isn&#8217;t a &#8220;suspected gunman,&#8221; he&#8217;s a &#8220;gunman.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a short article at Power Line Blog&nbsp;about the terrorist attacks during the past few days.&nbsp; The article, however, has a slightly different slant&#8211;it deals with the reporting.&nbsp; Power Line Blog is written by three lawyers, and sometimes they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}