{"id":3909,"date":"2011-01-18T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2011-01-18T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:39:41","slug":"evolution-of-a-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of a Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/17\/obamateurism-of-the-day-429\/\">This<\/a> is why I&#8217;ve gotten so sick of the Right Wing Echosphere lately.  Some blogger mistakes a closed-captioning system for a prompter.  The entire RWE repeats his &#8220;discovery&#8221; then later has to admit he was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>No one bothered to do any fact-checking.  No one bothered to call the University of Arizona or the White House.  No one even bothered to pause and think, &#8220;wait, does this make sense?&#8221;  They instantly judged and vented.<\/p>\n<p>This a distressing pattern I&#8217;ve seen on innumerable &#8220;nontroversies&#8221; (especially on the subject of global warming).  It&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve become skeptical of just about any claim I hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I&#8217;ve gotten so sick of the Right Wing Echosphere lately. Some blogger mistakes a closed-captioning system for a prompter. The entire RWE repeats his &#8220;discovery&#8221; then later has to admit he was wrong. No one bothered to do any fact-checking. No one bothered to call the University of Arizona or the White &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evolution of a Meme<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-113","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}