{"id":2228,"date":"2008-09-15T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/one-reporters-opinion-2\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T07:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:59:06","slug":"one-reporters-opinion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/one-reporters-opinion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One Reporter&#8217;s Opinion &#8211; George Putnam &#8211; RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s with sadness that we re-post <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/one-reporters-opinion\/\">this piece<\/a> we did in December 2005 &#8211; the great George Putnam passed away over the weekend. Even late in his life, he was busy writing his unique &#8220;One Reporter&#8217;s Opinion&#8221; columns at NewsMax. We will miss George Putnam.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>No one who lived in the <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong> area between the fifties and the seventies, will forget the iconic television newsman, <strong>George Putnam<\/strong>. One of the regular features on his newscast was <em>&#8220;One Reporter&#8217;s Opinion,&#8221;<\/em> during which he would editorialize on a topical issue. I enjoyed watching Putnam&#8217;s newscast, primarily because of his conservative point-of-view in spite of the liberal <strong>Times-Mirror<\/strong>&#8216;s  ownership of the television station, <strong>KTTV<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m happy to report that George Putnam&#8217;s <em>&#8220;One Reporter&#8217;s Opinion&#8221;<\/em> feature is alive and well at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/\">NewsMax<\/a> on line. Better yet, his politics are still in line with reality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>One Reporter&#8217;s Opinion &#8211; Americanism Left &#8216;Cold in the Night&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/december\/putnam.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>It is this reporter&#8217;s opinion that the very heart of America is under attack. There are those, foreign and domestic, who actually HATE this great nation and all it stands for. Led by atheists and the ACLU, there are groups who would love to destroy the promises on which our nation was founded &#8211; our very way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Aided and abetted by strange court decisions and oddball judges, each day brings a new shocker. We find federal judges ruling against the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional, finding that &#8220;one nation under God&#8221; violates schoolchildren&#8217;s right &#8220;to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latest target of the atheists is to remove &#8220;in God we trust&#8221; from our currency, claiming that this phrase violates the so-called separation of church and state. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Continue reading George Putnam&#8217;s article on <strong>NewsMax<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2005\/12\/16\/113025.shtml\">One Reporter&#8217;s Opinion &#8211; Americanism Left &#8216;Cold in the Night&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s with sadness that we re-post this piece we did in December 2005 &#8211; the great George Putnam passed away over the weekend. Even late in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberspace","category-media","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}