{"id":191,"date":"2005-08-12T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2005-08-12T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T14:47:39","slug":"left-wing-crackpot-surprizingly-admits-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Left Wing Crackpot (Surprisingly) Admits Error!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annoying pest\/wannabe reporter\/mediocre cartoonist Ted Rall has surprisingly issued a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediainfo.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001013511\">retraction<\/a>&#8221; of the following &#8220;cartoon.&#8221;  I use quotations in the first case, because I&#8217;m not sure that one can really <em>retract<\/em> a cartoon, and in the second case because the item in question doesn&#8217;t seem to be so much a <em>cartoon<\/em> as simply a graphical mouthpiece for Rall himself.  The lesson: If you&#8217;ve decided to be a reporter instead of a cartoonist, you need to start fact checking&#8230;you know, like real reporters do.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/trall050808.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_trall050808.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" alt=\"Rall's foolishness\" title=\"Rall's foolishness\"  \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annoying pest\/wannabe reporter\/mediocre cartoonist Ted Rall has surprisingly issued a &#8220;retraction&#8221; of the following &#8220;cartoon.&#8221; I use quotations in the first case, because I&#8217;m not sure that one can really retract a cartoon, and in the second case because the item in question doesn&#8217;t seem to be so much a cartoon as simply a graphical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=191\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}