{"id":934,"date":"2008-09-07T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2008-09-07T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:06:13","slug":"ottawas-classic-rock-station-offends-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa&#039;s Classic Rock Station Offends Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will let my letter to the station speak for itself.<\/p>\n<ul>\nOn Saturday September 6th in the mid afternoon, I heard the DJ (not sure who) talking about a racist in the USA who had a black baby doll hanging from a cross in front of his house.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to talk about how this person was fighting in court to be able to continue to display this.<\/p>\n<p>All this was fine and I agree with the DJ that the hanging doll was clearly a racist and disgusting display.<\/p>\n<p>What I found very distasteful and upsetting was his remarks that this racist American was a frontrunner for the Republican vice presidential nomination but wasn&#8217;t good looking enough.<\/p>\n<p>I know it was a joke, and the comments about him not being good looking enough may be considered male chauvinistic and I would not be writing if that was the joke.  But it wasn&#8217;t.  His comment about Republicans (and subtly by extension conservative minded people) as being racist or as considering a racist to be in a top position in their political hierarchy was extremely offensive.<\/p>\n<p>I think this DJ owes all conservative minded people an apology.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will let my letter to the station speak for itself. On Saturday September 6th in the mid afternoon, I heard the DJ (not sure who) talking about a racist in the USA who had a black baby doll hanging from a cross in front of his house. He went on to talk about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}