{"id":13221,"date":"2014-07-14T00:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2014-07-14T00:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T07:48:58","slug":"gutierrez-countered-republican-border-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/gutierrez-countered-republican-border-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutierrez Countered Republican Border Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Given the bogus media environment, in which we normally see so-called professionals allowing observable Republican lies to pass without challenge, or worse, it is indeed refreshing to see one of the networks inviting a guest to debunk those lies with factual data.&#160; Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) did just that.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0714BorderHate\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0714BorderHate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0714BorderHate.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"184\" \/>Rep. Luis Gutierrez patiently explained to Bob Schieffer how Rick Perry and the GOP are lying about the issues at the border. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Luis Gutierrez has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/02\/rep-gutierrez-gives-darrell-issa-hell-over\" target=\"_blank\">consistent champion for immigration reform<\/a>. He&#8217;s passionate and he&#8217;s great at cutting through all the nonsensical talking points Republicans have crafted about this crisis. <\/p>\n<p>He appeared on Face the Nation right after <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/07\/rick-perry-most-humanitarian-thing\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Rick Perry<\/a> this morning to counter the ridiculous claims Republicans are making. By now, you know the talking points, but just for clarity, here they are along with Gutierrez&#8217; response [<em>click through<\/em>]\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/07\/face-nation-rep-gutierrez-destroys-gop\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"341\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/QhrZnFf\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gutierrez did an excellent job, but along with this article&#8217;s author, I disagree that Obama should have visited the border. His appearance there helping children would be used by coyotes to convince even more families to turn over their children for the perilous trek north.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Also note that when GW Bush, aka Neocon Nero, finally did visit New Orleans, he was not helping, as Obama is now.&#160; He actually made the Army Corps of Engineers stop shoring up the levees and lose most of a day\u2019s work, because they were in the way of GW\u2019s photo-op.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the bogus media environment, in which we normally see so-called professionals allowing observable Republican lies to pass without challenge, or worse, it is indeed refreshing to see one of the networks inviting a guest to debunk those lies with factual data.&#160; Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) did just that. Rep. Luis Gutierrez patiently explained to Bob <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/gutierrez-countered-republican-border-lies\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-13221","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\/13221","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=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}