{"id":39362,"date":"2022-03-18T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=39362"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:38:05","slug":"the-hill-becoming-resistant-to-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/the-hill-becoming-resistant-to-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>The Hill<\/I> Becoming Resistant to Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Hill<\/em> has become increasingly pro-war and resistant to truth.<\/p>\n<p>An article today by Elizabeth Crisp is entitled: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/598771-here-are-the-eight-republicans-who-voted-against-ending-normal-trade-relations\">Here are the eight Republicans who voted against ending normal trade relations with Russia<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The eight GOP &#8220;no&#8221; votes were Reps. Marjarie Taylor Greene (GA), Matt Gaetz (FL), Lauren Boebert (CO), Thomas Massie (KY), Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Glenn Grothman (WI), and Chip Roy (TX).<\/p>\n<p>All eight Republicans in the House who voted against <strong>the anti-war measure<\/strong> have made it a point to stand out in the far-right wing of the GOP and have been holding tight to former President Trump as he plots a potential run for president in 2024. (emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Besides the fact that she identifies a pro-war measure as &#8220;anti-war,&#8221; she is also wrong about Thomas Massie.   <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2020\/03\/27\/who-is-thomas-massie-the-house-member-from-kentucky-trump-wants-thrown-out-of-the-gop\/\">Trump tried to have Massie kicked out of the Republican Party.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I left a polite comment pointing out the error about Massie (not mentioning the anti-war thing), and after ten minutes, it was deleted and marked &#8220;comment deleted.&#8221;   There was nothing rude or critical, just pointing out the error, which is too much for most of today&#8217;s journalists.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that Crisp actually checked on these facts.   She assumed that anyone against the war is pro-Trump and pro-war and didn&#8217;t need to check.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hill<\/em> used to be an honest publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill has become increasingly pro-war and resistant to truth. An article today by Elizabeth Crisp is entitled: &#8220;Here are the eight Republicans who voted against ending normal trade relations with Russia.&#8221; She writes: The eight GOP &#8220;no&#8221; votes were Reps. Marjarie Taylor Greene (GA), Matt Gaetz (FL), Lauren Boebert (CO), Thomas Massie (KY), Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[740,741],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-39362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elizabeth-crisp","tag-the-hill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39362"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39373,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions\/39373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}