{"id":4220,"date":"2019-05-21T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2019-05-21T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:02:44","slug":"so-much-for-the-schoolmarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"So Much for the Schoolmarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/05\/elizabeth-warren-fox-news\">refusal to appear on Fox News<\/a> has demonstrated that her lapse of judgement <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=3800\">in letting Trump troll her<\/a> on the Pocahantas issue is <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2019\/05\/elizabeth-warren-fox-news\">not a one-off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Facts do not care about your feelings, Ms. Warren. Like it or not (and, like most on the left, I most assuredly do not), Fox News is the No. 1 most-watched news channel in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Only a fool too incompetent to campaign properly would turn down a chance to market her platform to an audience that size. Especially when you consider the not-insignificant number of voters who voted for Obama twice (and\/or for Sanders once in the primary), and decided to either sit the 2016 general election out or vote for Trump. There are, in short, persuadable viewers on Fox News; Ms. Warren decided to write them off.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a center versus left thing, either. Both Sanders and Buttigieg got it, and decided to accept Fox News&#8217; invitations despite their personal dislikes of that network&#8217;s overall politics.<\/p>\n<p>It is also not purely campaign <em>realpolitik<\/em>. If Warren&#8217;s gut reactions get the best of her when it comes to Trump&#8217;s trolling or Fox News&#8217; editorial record, odds are gut reactions will get the best of her as president when she has to quickly respond to crises. That&#8217;s the last thing we need.<\/p>\n<p>Buh-bye, <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=4151\">Schoolmarm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her refusal to appear on Fox News has demonstrated that her lapse of judgement in letting Trump troll her on the Pocahantas issue is not a one-off. Facts do not care about your feelings, Ms. Warren. Like it or not (and, like most on the left, I most assuredly do not), Fox News is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}