{"id":1029,"date":"2012-10-26T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2012-10-26T08:41:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:41:52","slug":"solid-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SOLID SPECULATION&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several hours after the attacks on 9-11-01, news reporters were in an awkward position.\u00a0 Because of the magnitude of the events, they had to stay on the air continuously, even if there was nothing new to offer.\u00a0 I heard one reporter inadvertently say, &#8220;We&#8217;re looking for some solid speculation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Let me paraphrase the dictionary definition of &#8220;speculation&#8221; for The Department of Media* in today&#8217;s Administration:<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>speculation<\/strong> (noun)\u00a0 (verb?)\u00a0 (preposition? or proposition?)\u00a0 (direct object? or indirect object? [are we the target?])\u00a0 (the object of the proposition [that&#8217;s it])<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Coverup based on serious thinking or conjecture, hoping for a faulty conclusion by the people, based on such conjecture;\u00a0 at least enough confusion and repeated verbal masking [lying] to delay the truth, making the focus on the endless reported spin&#8212;to overshadow and hide the truth.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 The act of engaging in risky business transactions that offer a possibility of large profit.\u00a0 [Would you believe, I copied definition 2 word-for-word from my dictionary]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Try looking through the above lens at everything coming from the White House, and The Department of Media affiliates&#8212;particularly events of the last month&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AND<\/span>, most notably, events of the next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Related Post&#8212;&#8220;DOWNSTREAM MEDIA&#8221;\u00a0 (4-17-12)\u00a0 Please read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several hours after the attacks on 9-11-01, news reporters were in an awkward position.\u00a0 Because of the magnitude of the events, they had to stay on the air continuously, even if there was nothing new to offer.\u00a0 I heard one reporter inadvertently say, &#8220;We&#8217;re looking for some solid speculation.&#8221; &nbsp; Let me paraphrase the dictionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}