{"id":33972,"date":"2018-08-02T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33972"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:59:26","slug":"when-the-pot-calls-the-kettle-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33972","title":{"rendered":"When The Pot Calls The Kettle Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2018\/08\/someone-could-get-hurt.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line<\/a> posted an article about a recent tweet from Jim Acosta.<\/p>\n<p>This is the tweet (without the video):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AcostaTweet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AcostaTweet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AcostaTweet.png 505w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AcostaTweet-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AcostaTweet-500x237.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a>The sad scene he was referring to was probably not Americans at their best, but it was real&#8211;it was people protesting the false reporting of CNN. Mr. Acosta seems to have forgotten the actual incidents of Trump supporters being abused. The article at Power Line cites a number of these incidents. However, I believe the most egregious incident is a statement by Representative Maxine Waters to a group of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/25\/politics\/maxine-waters-trump-officials\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, Ms. Waters said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Let&#8217;s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they&#8217;re not welcome anymore, anywhere&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again, I don&#8217;t necessarily approve of the way Mr. Acosta was treated, but it was tame compared to being confronted with an angry mob when you are taking your family out to dinner. Mr. Acosta needs to clean up his own back yard before he attacks anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line posted an article about a recent tweet from Jim Acosta. This is the tweet (without the video): The sad scene he was referring to was probably not Americans at their best, but it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33972\">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":[1344,11761,1808,627,10700],"class_list":["post-33972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn","tag-jim-acosta","tag-john-hinderaker","tag-power-line","tag-representative-maxine-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33972","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=33972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33974,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33972\/revisions\/33974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}