{"id":12771,"date":"2012-02-09T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2012-02-09T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:32:55","slug":"cnn-suspends-roland-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12771","title":{"rendered":"CNN Suspends Roland Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roland Martin<\/strong> should’ve known better than to “joke” that you ought to “smack the ish” out of any guy at your Super Bowl party that’s “hyped about David Beckham’s<\/strong> H&M underwear ad.”<\/p>\n

If not because the comment itself was distasteful, than because a political commentator ought to know better than anyone how quickly an off-the-cuff remark can be your undoing.<\/p>\n

It’s no coincidence that Martin’s<\/strong> suspension was announced the same day that 20-year-old Brandon White<\/strong>, the victim of a violent homophobia-fueled beating, made headlines on the very network Martin<\/strong> is employed by. Mind you, these attacks also took place in the same city CNN is based in — Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roland Martin should’ve known better than to “joke” that you ought to “smack the ish” out of any guy at your Super Bowl party that’s “hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad.” If not because the comment itself was distasteful, than because a political commentator ought to know better than anyone how quickly an off-the-cuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}