{"id":21257,"date":"2016-03-03T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2016-03-03T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:43:19","slug":"its-a-frightening-thing-that-someone-in-the-21st-century-would-seriously-make-the-argument-that-jeffrey-lord-makes-in-this-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21257","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Frightening Thing That Someone in the 21st Century Would Seriously Make the Argument that Jeffrey Lord Makes in This Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Van Jones, Jeffrey Lord clash over Trump and the KKK\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUIs5K2Snpk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I did not see the full exchange, and I hope Lord did not get the last word, as he does in this\u00a0video excerpt, which I\u00a0found in a\u00a0piece in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/03\/arts\/television\/cnn-commentators-argue-over-trump-and-the-ku-klux-klan.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by James Poniewozik.\u00a0It&#8217;s worth reading the whole thing. Here are two excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is 2016. And here was a white panelist suggesting that his African-American peer should really go back and learn his history before criticizing someone about the Klan. Mr. Jones, calmly but with clear emotion, dressed Mr. Lord down: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to play that game,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you talk about the Klan, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is something frightening, in general, about hate groups becoming fodder for the modern cable news argument machine. Does anyone want to see TV take a \u201cboth sides have their points to make\u201d approach to the actual Ku Klux Klan? But here, anyway, amid the usual hyperbole and Times Square graphics of an election night, CNN delivered a scene of authentic passion over real concerns: the deep schisms among Republicans, the fear that vile hatreds are being resurrected, the anxiety that the vitriol of the campaign is bleeding into the larger culture. (Mr. Jones said that he\u2019d stopped encouraging his 7-year-old son to watch the news.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not see the full exchange, and I hope Lord did not get the last word, as he does in this\u00a0video excerpt, which I\u00a0found in a\u00a0piece in The New York Times\u00a0by James Poniewozik.\u00a0It&#8217;s worth reading the whole thing. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21259,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions\/21259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}