{"id":1144,"date":"2017-05-17T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T23:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2017-05-18T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:34:50","slug":"alternative-fact-those-who-do-not-know-history-are-doomed-to-sound-foolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Fact: Those Who Do Not Know History Are Doomed To Sound Foolish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Fact: Trump, speaking at the\u00a0US Coast Guard Academy commencement, claimed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/05\/17\/remarks-president-trump-united-states-coast-guard-academy-commencement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No politician in history &#8212; and I say this with great surety &#8212; has been treated worse or more unfairly<\/a>&#8220;. Had he gone with\u00a0&#8216;and&#8217; instead of &#8216;or&#8217;, the assertion would be subjective. But NO\u00a0politician in HISTORY has been treated <strong>WORSE<\/strong>?!?<\/p>\n<p>Real Fact: Real assassination &#8212; literally killing a person &#8212; is worse than character assassination.\u00a0Robespierre &#8211; both large numbers of politicians during his reign of terror <em>and<\/em> his eventual demise &#8211; worse. Defenestration of Prague (both 1 and 2) &#8211; worse. But let us be generous: place in scope only politicians during Trump&#8217;s adult lifetime. Anwar Sadat &#8211; worse. No one is a better friend to Israel than Trump (and with friends like this &#8230;), so how can he forget Rabin &#8211; worse. John F Kennedy &#8211; worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Fact: Trump, speaking at the\u00a0US Coast Guard Academy commencement, claimed &#8220;No politician in history &#8212; and I say this with great surety &#8212; has been treated worse or more unfairly&#8220;. Had he gone with\u00a0&#8216;and&#8217; instead of &#8216;or&#8217;, the assertion would be subjective. But NO\u00a0politician in HISTORY has been treated WORSE?!? Real Fact: Real assassination &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-alternativefact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}