{"id":33166,"date":"2012-12-10T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33166"},"modified":"2012-12-10T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:15:31","slug":"manchin-asks-mtv-to-cancel-buck-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33166","title":{"rendered":"Manchin asks MTV to cancel &#8220;Buck Wild&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with the military or terrorism or much else, but I just felt the need to write about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/dec\/8\/wva-senator-asks-mtv-cancel-buck-wild-series\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that West Virginia&#8217;s junior senator is publicly asking MTV to cancel their new show which hasn&#8217;t aired yet. The show is Named &#8220;Buck Wild&#8221; and centers around the lives of several West Virginia youths;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manchin\u2019s office said Friday that he sent a letter to the president of the network saying the show profits off of \u201cpoor decisions of our youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator also said the show set to begin airing Jan. 3 plays to ugly, inaccurate stereotypes about the people of his home state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, has Manchin been paying attention for the last several years? MTV has been profiting from the airing of \u201cpoor decisions of our youth\u201d for a very long time. The network hasn&#8217;t been about music since the early 90s.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, wouldn&#8217;t it be better if Senator Manchin asked the residents of my newest home state (my eighth) to stop being &#8220;ugly, inaccurate stereotypes&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with the military or terrorism or much else, &hellip; <a title=\"Manchin asks MTV to cancel &#8220;Buck Wild&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33166\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manchin asks MTV to cancel &#8220;Buck Wild&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}