{"id":2219888,"date":"2024-04-12T22:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sheila-jackson-lee-says-moon-is-a-planet-thats-made-up-of-mostly-gases-but-things-only-get-worse-when-she-tries-to-correct-it\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T02:39:07","slug":"sheila-jackson-lee-says-moon-is-a-planet-thats-made-up-of-mostly-gases-but-things-only-get-worse-when-she-tries-to-correct-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sheila-jackson-lee-says-moon-is-a-planet-thats-made-up-of-mostly-gases-but-things-only-get-worse-when-she-tries-to-correct-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Jackson Lee mistakenly calls the moon a &#8216;planet&#8217; and claims it&#8217;s mostly gases in a blunder that escalates when she tries to correct it"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsheila-jackson-lee-says-moon-is-a-planet-thats-made-up-of-mostly-gases-but-things-only-get-worse-when-she-tries-to-correct-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">article<\/a> discusses\u200c Sheila Jackson Lee&#8217;s \u200bastronomical error about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-announces-elite-group-of-nasa-astronauts-to-train-for-moon-landing\/\" title=\"Pence Announces Elite Group of NASA Astronauts To Train for Moon Landing\">moon<\/a> being \u2063a &#8216;planet&#8217; with mostly gases. \u2064It highlights the expectation of better astronomical knowledge from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the Democrats\u2019 Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail\u2019?\">elected officials<\/a>. Despite her \u2062long tenure, the mistake raises eyebrows. The incident\u2062 is detailed in an article on The \u200cWestern\u200c Journal\u2064 website. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-coming-for-your-favorite-podcasts\/\" title=\"They\u2019re Coming For Your Favorite Podcasts\">article sheds light<\/a> on Sheila Jackson Lee&#8217;s astronomical blunder regarding the moon being labeled a &#8216;planet&#8217; predominantly composed of\u2062 gases.\u200b It emphasizes the public&#8217;s \u200banticipation of higher astronomical proficiency from elected representatives. Despite her\u2064 extensive tenure, the error garners attention.\u2063 The \u200dincident is documented\u2064 in an article on The Western\u200d Journal website.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>One would hope that elected officials would know more about astronomy than the average middle schooler. Well, despite having served as the U.S. Representative for Texas\u2019 18th Congressional District since [\u2026]\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sheila-jackson-lee-says-moon-planet-made-mostly-gases-things-get-worse-tries-correct\/\">Sheila Jackson Lee Says Moon Is a &#8216;Planet&#8217; That&#8217;s &#8216;Made Up of Mostly Gases,&#8217; But Things Only Get Worse When She Tries to Correct It<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite her long tenure as the U.S. Representative for Texas\u2019 18th Congressional District, Sheila Jackson Lee&#8217;s claim that the moon is a &#8216;planet&#8217; composed mostly of gases reveals a surprising lack of basic astronomical knowledge. The situation further deteriorates as she attempts to rectify her error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2577,"featured_media":2219889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jackson-Lee.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jackson-Lee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}