{"id":6157,"date":"2014-05-12T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/hashtag-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T01:27:20","slug":"hashtag-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/hashtag-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hashtag Diplomacy<\/p>\n

Cartoon and this excerpt from The Patriot Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

#BringBackOurGirls Rhetoric<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political commentator George Will<\/strong> blasted the White House’s response to the kidnappings in Nigeria and had this to say about Michelle Obama’s #BringBackOurGirls twitter promo. “Are these barbarians in the wilds of Nigeria supposed to check their Twitter accounts and say, ‘Uh oh, Michelle Obama is very cross with us — we better change our behavior’?” he asked. “It’s an exercise in self-esteem. I do not know how adults stand there, facing a camera, and say, ‘Bring back our girls.'” Of course, we don’t understand how Democrats can stand in front of the camera to exploit every mass shooting, either. Will added, “Power is the ability to achieve intended effects, and this [social media campaign] is not intended to have any effect on the real world.” Michelle delivered a speech on the situation over the weekend, but her remarks excluded any reference to Boko Haram or Islam. #ProfilesInCourage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We note that political cartoonist Gary McCoy<\/strong> has comically exaggerated every feature of the first couple EXCEPT for the first lady’s BUTT!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cartoon and this excerpt from The Patriot Post: #BringBackOurGirls Rhetoric Political commentator George Will blasted the White House’s response to the kidnappings in Nigeria and had...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-humor","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","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=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}