{"id":16933,"date":"2014-04-23T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16933"},"modified":"2014-04-23T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:10:53","slug":"incredibly-poor-taste-suggestion-to-embrace-puts-george-on-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/23\/incredibly-poor-taste-suggestion-to-embrace-puts-george-on-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Incredibly Poor Taste’ : Suggestion To Embrace Puts George On Hot Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s funny how a little research can change what you think you know.\u00a0 Or as I like to quote Mark Twain<\/a>, \u201cIt ain\u2019t what you don\u2019t know that gets you into trouble. It\u2019s what you know for sure that just ain\u2019t so.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a recent discussion of the value of compromise above all else, I was looking for a story that would show how ridiculous this idea is. I remember hearing about a television interview where the interviewer asked a rape victim to hug the rapist.<\/p>\n

With a little Googling I found the article ‘Incredibly Poor Taste’ : Suggestion To Embrace Puts George On Hot Seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Collectors of idiotic remarks made by Phyllis George on “The CBS Morning News” hit a bonanza Wednesday morning when George asked Gary Dotson, freed after six years on a rape charge, and Cathleen Webb, the victim who now says the rape never occurred, to hug each other. The request, at the end of a bubbly George interview, lit up CBS switchboards in New York and Washington with calls from offended viewers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait a minute.\u00a0 I don’t remember that the “victim” had recanted her story.\u00a0 Of course, how else would the two of them be appearing on a talk show together?<\/p>\n

WikiPedia provides a complete story in the article Gary Dotson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh well, this would have been a good story to make my point if the “victim” had really been the person who I thought was the “victim”.\u00a0 Turns out the other person was the real victim.\u00a0 I suppose they actually did come to some sort of compromise in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s funny how a little research can change what you think you know.\u00a0 Or as I like to quote Mark Twain, \u201cIt ain\u2019t what you don\u2019t know that gets you into trouble. It\u2019s what you know for sure that just ain\u2019t so.\u201d With a recent discussion of the value of compromise above all else, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16938,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions\/16938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}