{"id":573891918,"date":"2020-02-06T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891918"},"modified":"2020-02-12T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:52:35","slug":"theres-a-lot-to-watch-only-a-little-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/theres-a-lot-to-watch-only-a-little-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a lot to watch, only a little to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think these two items work together nicely. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A U.S. Senate report released on Thursday says Republican congressional leaders\u2019 refusal to publicly acknowledge Russian election interference in 2016 contributed to a watered-down response by the Obama administration<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9lD2DeaV9u\">https:\/\/t.co\/9lD2DeaV9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytpolitics\/status\/1225494933659901953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That tweet is framed politely, the report spreads the condemnation a fair bit. Which is easy to do, there are many fingers to point in many directions. But, ultimately, everything seems to follow the rule of gravity, and point downward. Lowest common denominators being what they are.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What if rhetoricians were studying the wrong sort of speakers? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aMGUJVpfF5\">https:\/\/t.co\/aMGUJVpfF5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1225517911311372290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full day in the office<\/strong>, followed by several hours in the studio. So there&#8217;s not a lot here. (Initially I wrote lout, which was more typographical error than subliminal message, but I fortunately caught it just in time.) I do have some video from the studio, however. Tuesday night we watched the news:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLjH1gIfHIY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And they made white chocolate strawberries, which may be the way to go there, it turns out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6-ta7xi5crY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tonight was sports:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NAtuhfmutj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So many sports:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Az9wgVp3bsA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hope that&#8217;ll keep you for now. We&#8217;ll try to do better next Thursday, and at least a few of the days in between. See you tomorrow, then, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think these two items work together nicely. A U.S. Senate report released on Thursday says Republican congressional leaders\u2019 refusal to publicly acknowledge Russian election interference in 2016 contributed to a watered-down response by the Obama administration https:\/\/t.co\/9lD2DeaV9u &mdash; NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) February 6, 2020 That tweet is framed politely, the report spreads the condemnation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,35,76,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-journalism","category-television","category-thursday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891921,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891918\/revisions\/573891921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}