{"id":537,"date":"2007-07-25T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:32:17","slug":"an-anti-semitic-slur-or-a-mere-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"An Anti-Semitic Slur or a Mere Misunderstanding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jewess.canonist.com\/?p=493\">Rebecca Honig Friedman blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Blogger Yisrael Medad of My Right Word got himself into a (threatened) <a href=\"http:\/\/myrightword.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/wonkette-threatens-me-with-legal-action.html\">legal tiff with the Wonkette blog<\/a>, over a post in which Medad questions whether a <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/politics\/what-if-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-came-dept%27\/rudy-reveals-secret-war-280866.php\">Wonkette post<\/a> about one Rudy &ldquo;Jew-liani&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Jew York Times&rdquo; wasn&rsquo;t the least bit anti-Semitic.<br \/>\nWonkette&rsquo;s editor said Medad just didn&rsquo;t take the time to get the joke, and would like him to apologize or face a libel lawsuit. Medad said he would do no such thing and that Wonkette should apologize.<br \/>\nIn the end, <a href=\"http:\/\/myrightword.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/ken-from-wonkette-replies.html\">it&rsquo;s all ok<\/a> &mdash; there will be no legal action and Wonkette&rsquo;s editor says he is &ldquo;tired of explaining humor\/irony to people looking to be outraged by everything, so I will say good-bye.&rdquo;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Honig Friedman blogs: Blogger Yisrael Medad of My Right Word got himself into a (threatened) legal tiff with the Wonkette blog, over a post in which Medad questions whether a Wonkette post about one Rudy &ldquo;Jew-liani&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Jew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=537\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}