{"id":642,"date":"2008-10-11T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2008-10-11T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:00:14","slug":"why-be-afraid-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/10\/11\/why-be-afraid-of-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Be Afraid of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Montage of Fox News Coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/videos\/index.jhtml?videoId=187600\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to a video of Jon Stewart&#8217;s montage of Fox News coverage of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is supposed to be a piece of humor, but there are some serious messages here.<\/p>\n<p>If you watch Fox News as your main source of news, this video shows why you may be fearful of Barack Obama. If I actually believed what Fox was saying, I might be fearful too.\u00a0 So now you can at least understand where people get their attitude even if you do not agree.<\/p>\n<p>The other affect of this piece is to make me think about the news that I see and read. You always have to be on guard against being propagandized into believing foolish ideas. Perhaps the videos in my <a title=\"End Of America post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=632\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>End Of America<\/strong><\/a> post are nothing more than the ravings of a left wing equivalent to Fox News.\u00a0 That is why I cautioned taking a deep breath after viewing the videos.<\/p>\n<p>I always believe that skepticism is a good trait to have.\u00a0 It makes me uncomfortable when anyone appears not to have any skepticism about what they see or read from any source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to a video of Jon Stewart&#8217;s montage of Fox News coverage of Barack Obama. I know this is supposed to be a piece of humor, but there are some serious messages here. If you watch Fox News as your main source of news, this video shows why you may be fearful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}