{"id":24886,"date":"2019-08-06T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24886"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:46:49","slug":"equivalencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/equivalencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Equivalencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories on the front page of NYPost.com today show a bit of false equivalency.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/equivalencies.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/05\/aoc-rips-mcconnell-over-pic-of-young-men-in-team-mitch-shirts-groping-choking-cutout-of-her\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AOC rips McConnell over pic of young men in \u2018Team Mitch\u2019 shirts \u2018groping &#038; choking\u2019 cutout of her<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night after a photo surfaced on social media, showing a group of young men &#8220;groping and choking&#8221; a cardboard cutout of the freshman congresswoman \u2014 while wearing shirts that read &#8220;Team Mitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey @senatemajldr \u2013 these young men look like they work for you,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping &#038; choking members of Congress w\/ your payroll,\u201d she asked, \u201cor is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/06\/protesters-shout-death-threats-outside-mitch-mcconnells-home\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Protesters shout death threats outside Mitch McConnell\u2019s home<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gun control supporters stood outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s home in Kentucky on Sunday night \u2014 protesting and hurling death threats at him \u2014 while broadcasting on Facebook Live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Murder Turtle!&#8221; the demonstrators can be heard shouting on video, in reference to McConnell&#8217;s infamous nickname.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come out, come out, wherever you are,&#8221; a person says at one point, while the others continue to yell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bitch home \u2014 we keep seeing the lights go on and off,&#8221; another says. &#8220;This hoe really thought he was going to get ready to be at home after he hurt his little punk ass shoulder. Bitch, don\u2019t nobody give a f\u2013k! F\u2013k your thoughts and prayers, Mitch. F\u2013k you, f\u2013k your wife, f\u2013k everything you stand for.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One is shenanigans, and one is an attempt to threaten and intimidate.<\/p>\n<p>Some people would like for us to think they&#8217;re the same, but they are not.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the distinguished gentlewoman is probably to young to remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/favreau_gropes_clinton_cardboard_cutout\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jon Favreau, the 27-year-old speechwriter to Barack Obama, was photographed with his hand on the, er, lower shoulder of a cardboard cutout of Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or maybe she is hoping that her audience is.  And she might be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories on the front page of NYPost.com today show a bit of false equivalency. AOC rips McConnell over pic of young men in \u2018Team Mitch\u2019 shirts \u2018groping &#038; choking\u2019 cutout of her: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night after a photo surfaced on social media, showing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24887,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions\/24887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}