{"id":5064,"date":"2012-02-17T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:44:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:44:36","slug":"is-the-average-fox-news-fan-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/is-the-average-fox-news-fan-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the average Fox News fan a racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could be.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread on Whitney Houston\u2019s death is yet another disgusting deluge of outright racism&#8230;There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread &#8230; Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so they aren\u2019t caught by word filters. And many of the worst comments have numerous \u201clikes\u201d from other commenters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/39912_Fox_News_Commenters_Respond_to_Whitney_Houstons_Death_With_Deluge_of_Hatred_and_Racism\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/dispatches\/2012\/02\/16\/fox-news-commenters-spew-racism-at-whitney-houston\/\">Ed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could be. There\u2019s a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread on Whitney Houston\u2019s death is yet another disgusting deluge of outright racism&#8230;There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread &#8230; Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so they aren\u2019t caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/is-the-average-fox-news-fan-a-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the average Fox News fan a racist?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[303],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1jG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}