{"id":748,"date":"2011-05-11T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=748"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:32:03","slug":"white-house-defends-rapper-common-against-critics-of-his-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/white-house-defends-rapper-common-against-critics-of-his-lyrics.html","title":{"rendered":"White House defends rapper Common against critics of his lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>I CALL IT EAR PORN!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The White House is standing by its decision to invite the rapper Common to participate in a poetry event despite conservative and other criticism that the musician has glorified the killing of police officers with his lyrics. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopusa.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/white-house-defends-rapper-common-against-critics-of-his-lyrics\/\">Read more at GOPUSA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Listen to these lyrics and see if you agree with Obama. \u00a0Yikes! \u00a0Shocking! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">What do you think? \u00a0Please your comments!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Def Poetry - Common - A Letter To The Law\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LssFolrpiD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I CALL IT EAR PORN! WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The White House is standing by its decision to invite the rapper Common to participate in a poetry event despite conservative and other criticism that the musician has glorified the killing of police officers with his lyrics. \u00a0Read more at GOPUSA Listen to these lyrics and see&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,303,35],"tags":[306,305,304],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-entertainment","category-obama","tag-ear-porn","tag-rap","tag-rock"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White House defends rapper Common against critics of his lyrics  - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/white-house-defends-rapper-common-against-critics-of-his-lyrics.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White House defends rapper Common against critics of his lyrics  - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I CALL IT EAR PORN! 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