{"id":6674,"date":"2018-08-04T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2018-08-04T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T19:06:52","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-coriolanus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/6674","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Coriolanus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican president has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2vuyjoM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred<\/a> to the press as the &#8220;enemy of the people,&#8221; a phrase most commonly associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2mAlG5F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stalin<\/a>, but one that has a long history.<\/p>\n<p>This is extremely dangerous. A free and impartial press is an essential element to our democracy. We already know that he <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2viyX9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labels<\/a> any negative news about him as fake news, and counts on his blindly loyal supporters to believe him.<\/p>\n<p>But calling the press the enemy of the people takes it even a step further. This is so beyond the pale, that CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta gave Sarah Huckabee Sanders a chance to walk this back in the press briefing. She chose not to do so, and her defensive answer was filled with lies and distortions.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FnEIKUsqtv0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last thing she said was true. She&#8217;s there to speak on behalf of the president when he makes his opinions clear, no matter how repugnant or inflammatory they may be. I imagine it&#8217;s a difficult job.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Coriolanus<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May I cut in, cue felicity from a White House spokesperson?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican president has repeatedly referred to the press as the &#8220;enemy of the people,&#8221; a phrase most commonly associated with Stalin, but one that has a long history. This is extremely dangerous. A free and impartial press is an essential element to our democracy. We already know that he labels any negative news about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,9,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-literacy","category-politics","category-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6681,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}