{"id":1236,"date":"2017-06-22T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2017-06-22T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:08:54","slug":"alternative-fact-single-or-double-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Fact: Don&#8217;t Quote Me On That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Fact:\u00a0Trump has tapes from his meetings with Comey (and tune in later this week to hear exciting news about them!).<\/p>\n<p>Real Fact: Rationally,\u00a0<em>if<\/em> Trump had something that exonerated him, he would have produced the evidence WEEKS ago. Hell, the day after Comey&#8217;s testimony would have been\u00a0<em>late<\/em> but suitably theatrical. But it is a little silly to expect rational behaviour from someone who has thus far displayed nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>With the &#8220;but it was a &#8216;scare quote&#8217; so he didn&#8217;t literally mean it&#8221; argument from March&#8217;s wire tapping bit of craziness<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WireTap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1237\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WireTap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WireTap.png 635w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WireTap-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>how can I possibly be asked to believe he has &#8220;tapes&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NoTapes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1238\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NoTapes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NoTapes.png 635w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NoTapes-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonus real fact: It is impossible to differentiate scare quotes (the phrase in quotes is used sarcastically, ironically, or otherwise without intending the actual meaning of the word) from highlight quote (the &#8220;word&#8221; is what should be emphasized in this sentence) without prescient knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Fact:\u00a0Trump has tapes from his meetings with Comey (and tune in later this week to hear exciting news about them!). Real Fact: Rationally,\u00a0if Trump had something that exonerated him, he would have produced the evidence WEEKS ago. Hell, the day after Comey&#8217;s testimony would have been\u00a0late but suitably theatrical. But it is a little &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-alternativefact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}