{"id":10673,"date":"2013-07-21T01:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T08:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2013-07-21T01:25:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T08:25:59","slug":"racist-republicans-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/racist-republicans-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Republicans React"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching Barack Obama\u2019s comments about the travesty of Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal, after murdering Trayvon Martin, I think Obama went out of his way to avoid offense.  His comments were respectful, low key and hopeful.  Of course, no matter what he said, racist hatemongers from the Republican propaganda mill were sure to take offense, such as these four examples.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"21RR\"Conservatives didn\u2019t even wait for President Obama to finish his deeply personal remarks<\/a> on Trayvon Martin\u2019s killing and the role of race in America to go ballistic, accusing the president of being a \u201cRacist in Chief\u201d who is \u201ctrying to tear our country apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Twitter, Fox News, and elsewhere, many conservatives took a predictably depressing response, arguing that Obama is the true racist for having the courage to speak about race in our country.<\/p>\n

Here is a roundup of the top conservatives attacking the president\u2019s speech:<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Todd Starnes:<\/p>\n

\"21RR1\"<\/p>\n

Influential conservative blogger Dan Riehl:<\/p>\n

\"21RR2\"<\/p>\n

Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro:<\/p>\n

\"21RR3\"<\/p>\n

Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce:<\/p>\n

\"21RR4\"<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert<\/strong>: The original article has eight more excellent examples, equally vile acts of TEAbuggery from the Republican bubble machine.  Do take a look, but protect your screen and keyboard.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now, here is what I have to say about race, in this case, the 2014 race.<\/font><\/p>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching Barack Obama\u2019s comments about the travesty of Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal, after murdering Trayvon Martin, I think Obama went out of his way to avoid offense.  His comments were respectful, low key and hopeful.  Of course, no matter what he said, racist hatemongers from the Republican propaganda mill were sure to take offense, such as these […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}