{"id":11225,"date":"2013-09-27T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2013-09-27T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:06:00","slug":"republicans-on-parade9272013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/republicans-on-parade9272013\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–9\/27\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the twenty-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Radio Host and Propagandist, Sandy Rios.  She is honored for a a conspiracy theory so daft, that it proves she needs Cruz Control<\/em> almost as desperately as Ted.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"27Rios\"Yesterday, American Family Radio morning drive-time host Sandy Rios used the Westgate Mall shooting in Nairobi to promote birther lunacy.  In the process, she pushed claims that have been debunked several times over–not that anyone who listens to AFR would know.  <\/p>\n

According to Rios, that reports of at least three Americans with ties to al-Qaeda raises staggering implications, given that "this is the country from where our president hails."  She then doubled down, claiming that Obama’s cousin is former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga, "a Muslim Communist."<\/strong>  No, this isn’t snark–People for the American Way got a clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Odinga claimed back in December 2007, in the wake of the Kenyan presidential election, that he was Obama’s cousin.  appeared to form the basis of a long-circulating email claiming that Obama and Odinga have long been in cahoots with each other, and that Obama even donated a million dollars to the Odinga campaign. Not so, says Snopes<\/a>–which points out that Obama and Odinga are not biologically related and that at least one other candidate in the Kenyan election claimed to be related to Obama.  <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the wingnut fringe seized on it to peddle claims that Obama endorsed Odinga<\/a> and actively campaigned for him<\/a>.  Moreover, Odinga isn’t a Muslim–he’s a born-again Christian<\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Is that a major whopper or what?<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz has his own expos\u00e9 on this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course this liar is a Republican. When she’s not propagandizing for them, she’s raising money for their candidates.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the twenty-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Radio Host and Propagandist, Sandy Rios.  She is honored for a a conspiracy theory so daft, that it proves she needs Cruz Control almost as desperately as Ted. Yesterday, American […]<\/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-11225","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\/11225","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=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}