{"id":75877,"date":"2017-06-21T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75877"},"modified":"2017-06-21T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:49:10","slug":"has-the-public-discourse-sunk-this-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75877","title":{"rendered":"Has the public discourse sunk this low?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Caitlyn Jenner ripped for comment about Scalise shooting: &#8216;Liberals can&#8217;t even shoot straight&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->FOX News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75878\" style=\"width: 886px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1497882502825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75878\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75878\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1497882502825.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1497882502825.jpg 876w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1497882502825-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1497882502825-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caitlyn Jenner poses for photographers at the 2017 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 26, 2017. (Reuters)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Caitlyn Jenner&#8217;s comment about last week&#8217;s shooting at the GOP baseball practice that left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise critically injured, did not go over well.<\/p>\n<p>Jenner spoke at the College Republican&#8217;s National Convention gala last week where she was asked her thoughts about the shooting. Her remarks were uploaded on Facebook in a video that is now making the rounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody deserves what happened out there,&#8221; the longtime Republican said. &#8220;There\u2019s no justification for it. There\u2019s crazy people in the world \u2014 we know that \u2026 We have to minimize that kind of stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;Fortunately, the guy was a really bad shot&#8230;Liberals can\u2019t even shoot straight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many people, celebrities included, took to Twitter to express their disdain for the 67-year-old&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/DebraMessing\/status\/876470797560401924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fentertainment%2F2017%2F06%2F19%2Fcaitlyn-jenner-ripped-for-comment-about-scalise-shooting-liberals-cant-even-shoot-straight.html<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Caitlyn_Jenner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Caitlyn_Jenner<\/a> you&#39;ll need to apologize to Steve Scalise who was critically injured by guy who you say couldn&#39;t even shoot straight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rEmMDA56zw\">https:\/\/t.co\/rEmMDA56zw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John V. Moore (@johnvmoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnvmoore\/status\/876275947258990593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With your shooting remark you are trying to stay relevant,, complete failure!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CR (@CarollingRS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarollingRS\/status\/876801444330049536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A rep for Jenner did not return Fox News&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/06\/19\/caitlyn-jenner-ripped-for-comment-about-scalise-shooting-liberals-cant-even-shoot-straight.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/06\/19\/caitlyn-jenner-ripped-for-comment-about-scalise-shooting-liberals-cant-even-shoot-straight.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlyn Jenner ripped for comment about Scalise shooting: &#8216;Liberals can&#8217;t even shoot straight&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}