{"id":8060,"date":"2018-01-14T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:48:32","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-003-the-great-racist-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8060","title":{"rendered":"The Danielle Metz Show &#8211; 003 &#8211; The great racist eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DMS-003-2017ECLIPSE-168x100.jpg\" alt=\"2017 Solar Eclipse\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8061\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/DMS\/DMS-003-170831-The-Great-Racist-Eclipse.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of those editorial items that Ayn Rand might have cited in what she called her \u201chorror file,\u201d those <strong>news stories and commentaries<\/strong> of her day <strong>that best illustrated America\u2019s deteriorating intellectual and moral climate.<\/p>\n<p>The trend continues.<\/strong> From the pages of Atlantic Magazine, in an August 18, 2017 commentary by Alice Ristroph (American Blackout), came the argument that the pending solar eclipse was, in effect, <strong>a racist eclipse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pure lunacy,\u201d says Robert Vaughan in his conversation with Danielle.  &#8220;This is insanity.  This is not sane. The author would, in past, have been placed in an asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the loony commentary appeared in a supposedly credible media source.<\/p>\n<p>With the media \u201clens of the Left\u201d so intensely focused on real and imagined incidents of racism, the then-pending eclipse was overshadowing their stream of anti-Trump stories.  So why not turn the lunar event into a racist metaphor to protest Trump\u2019s America?  That, according to Danielle, is how the Atlantic Magazine\u2019s editorial comes across, particularly given its political content.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fascinating look into the dismal minds of those who are constantly focused on race and group identity. <strong>What is continually being \u201ceclipsed\u201d is logic and reason.<\/strong> That\u2019s why the superficial and associative thinking of the Left will always be incompatible with what is Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/DMS\/DMS-003-170831-The-Great-Racist-Eclipse.mp3\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of those editorial items that Ayn Rand might have cited in what she called her \u201chorror file,\u201d those news stories and commentaries of her day that best illustrated America\u2019s deteriorating intellectual and moral climate. The trend continues. From the pages of Atlantic Magazine, in an August 18, 2017 commentary by Alice Ristroph (American <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8060' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,84,28,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-culture-society","category-journalism","category-latest","category-society","issues-irrationality","issues-racism","personalities-alice-ristroph","category-12-id","category-62-id","category-84-id","category-28-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8060"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions\/14210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}