{"id":318,"date":"2007-02-15T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2007-02-15T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T15:11:58","slug":"the-media-is-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"The media is the message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/horsesmouth\/2007\/02\/house_gopers_to.php\">elsewhere<\/a>, but I&#8217;m going to repeat it here because it boggles the mind and the fellow who wrote it represents my home state:<\/p>\n<p>><strong>Thanks to the liberal mainstream media, Americans fully understand the consequences of continuing our efforts in Iraq &#8212; both in American lives and dollars<\/strong>. The American people <strong>do not<\/strong> understand the consequences of abandoning that effort or the extreme views, goals, and intentions of the radical Islamist movement that is fueling the war in Iraq and the attacks on westerners and unbelievers throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/majorityleader.house.gov\/docUploads\/ShadeggHoekstraDearColleague.pdf\">here<\/a> (they conflate the war in Iraq with the war against radical Islam).  The strangest thing about this passage however is how sloppily they make the causal claim.  They should remember that the liberal media misinforms people, not the other way around.  Unless they really mean that it&#8217;s good that people are informed.  If this is the case, then they ought to put a &#8220;but&#8221; at the beginning of the next sentence.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been mentioned elsewhere, but I&#8217;m going to repeat it here because it boggles the mind and the fellow who wrote it represents my home state: >Thanks to the liberal mainstream media, Americans fully understand the consequences of continuing our efforts in Iraq &#8212; both in American lives and dollars. The American people do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The media is the message<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}