{"id":13861,"date":"2019-11-21T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:52:12","slug":"when-the-villain-is-obama-not-trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/when-the-villain-is-obama-not-trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"When the villain is Obama, not Trump, news suddenly becomes not worth reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-21-When-the-villain-is-Obama-not-Trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-21-When-the-villain-is-Obama-not-Trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting.png 741w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-21-When-the-villain-is-Obama-not-Trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption> Barack Obama AP <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>NEW YORK POST<\/strong>, Opinion, by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/kyle-smith\/\">Kyle Smith<\/a> &#8212; November 20, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So the United States has \u201cthe world\u2019s highest rate of children in  detention.\u201d Is this worth reporting? Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless,  Agence France-Presse, or AFP, and Reuters did report it, attributing the  information to a \u201cUnited Nations study\u201d on migrant children detained at  the US-Mexico border.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Then the two agencies retracted the story. Deleted, withdrew,  demolished. If they could have used one of those Men in Black  memory-zappers on us, they would have. Sheepishly, the two news  organizations explained that, you see, the UN data was from 2015 \u2014 part  of a border crackdown that had begun years earlier.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We all know who the president was in 2015. It wasn\u2019t evil,  child-caging monster President Trump. It was that nice, compassionate,  child-caging monster President Barack Obama.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Zap. The story made Obama look bad. Hence the story was removed. Not updated or corrected, removed. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/20\/when-the-villain-is-obama-not-trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/20\/when-the-villain-is-obama-not-trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK POST, Opinion, by Kyle Smith &#8212; November 20, 2019 Excerpt: So the United States has \u201cthe world\u2019s highest rate of children in detention.\u201d Is this worth reporting? Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless, Agence France-Presse, or AFP, and Reuters did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/when-the-villain-is-obama-not-trump-news-suddenly-becomes-not-worth-reporting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13863,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}