{"id":3936,"date":"2011-09-20T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/09\/20\/quote-of-day_20-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:12","slug":"quote-of-day_20-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16957,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com\\\/gun-rights-in-national\\\/elite-media-treatment-of-gunwalker-is-scandalous&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220509175633\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com\\\/gun-rights-in-national\\\/elite-media-treatment-of-gunwalker-is-scandalous&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/examiner.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16958,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dartmouth.edu\\\/%7Enyhan&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16959,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.brendan-nyhan.com\\\/blog\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/will-solyndra-be-the-first-major-obama-scandal.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.brendan-nyhan.com\\\/blog\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/will-solyndra-be-the-first-major-obama-scandal&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The quote of the day comes from David Codrea. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/elite-media-treatment-of-gunwalker-is-scandalous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In his National Gun Rights Examiner column<\/a>, he looks at the extreme reluctance of the elite or mainstream media to even acknowledge Operation Fast and Furious as a scandal. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/%7Enyhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dartmouth College political scientist Brendan Nyhan<\/a>, it isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendan-nyhan.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/will-solyndra-be-the-first-major-obama-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially a scandal<\/a> until it makes the front page of the Washington Post and the reporter uses the word scandal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So\u2014if the only &#8220;official&#8221; media outlets willing to call \u201cGunwalker\u201d a \u201cscandal\u201d are some jerkwater paper in racist, anti-immigrant Arizona, the Teabagger\/Troglodyte-appealing Faux News and a CBS blog that isn\u2018t even getting air time on the actual network news program anymore (hey, I\u2019m just trying to get into the mindset of the elite information gatekeepers), what chance do we flyover knuckledraggers have of getting the mighty Pravda on the Potomac to call an international criminal conspiracy resulting in untold human deaths and reaching across bureaus, agencies and departments and layers of lawyers at least to the Cabinet level a \u201cscandal\u201d?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quote of the day comes from David Codrea. In his National Gun Rights Examiner column, he looks at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}