{"id":1874,"date":"2016-11-10T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:56:20","slug":"van-jones-tries-to-explain-his-whitelash-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Van Jones tries to explain his &#8220;whitelash&#8221; comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d237f4d1970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Van jones\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d237f4d1970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d237f4d1970c-200wi\" style=\"width: 196px;\" title=\"Van jones\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was watching CNN when he made the remark Tuesday night &#8211; born of frustration over his side losing. Jones of course a rabid Democrat who worked in the Obama Administration and now is a commentator on CNN. I&#39;ll give him the benefit of the doubt even though he sounds bigoted.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ISGKonidUpY\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching CNN when he made the remark Tuesday night &#8211; born of frustration over his side losing. Jones of course a rabid Democrat who worked in the Obama Administration and now is a commentator on CNN. I&#39;ll give him the benefit of the doubt even though he sounds bigoted.&#0160; &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7949,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/7949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}