{"id":13537,"date":"2014-08-25T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13537"},"modified":"2014-08-25T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:43:09","slug":"last-weeks-insane-republican-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/last-weeks-insane-republican-rants\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week&#8217;s Insane Republican Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the envelope on just how Insane InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026<strong>Fox host confuses ISIS with Islam\u2014suggests solution is \u201cbullet in the head.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0825Pirates\" 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=\"0825Pirates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0825Pirates.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\" \/>Among the distinctions Fox hosts are unable to make is the difference between violent, extremist Muslims and all other Muslims. They are all alike to the Islamophobe. It takes almost no provocation to draw out this confusion, and the beheading of journalist James Foley by the militant group ISIS easily did the trick. On Wednesday\u2019s edition of \u201cOutnumbered,\u201d co-host Andrea Tantaros, a beacon of subtle thinking, really let her ignorance fly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you study the history of Islam,\u201d she said, as if she had actually studied the history of Islam, \u201cour ship captains were getting murdered. The French had to tip us off. I mean these were the days of Thomas Jefferson. They\u2019ve been doing the same thing. This isn\u2019t a surprise. You can\u2019t solve it with a dialogue. You can\u2019t solve it with a summit. You solve it with a bullet to the head. It\u2019s the only thing these people understand. And all we\u2019ve heard from this President is a case to heap praise on this religion, as if to appease them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the rather dubious history, and the idea that going all the way back to Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s day gives you a complete picture of Islam, we couldn&#8217;t help notice the use of the lovely catchphrase \u201cthese people.\u201d Always a tip off.<\/p>\n<p>Right Andrea, this whole ISIS thing is nothing a little ethnic cleansing wouldn\u2019t solve\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tea-party-and-right\/5-insane-right-wing-rants-week-arch-conservative-celeb-edition?paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was able to find video.&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zgiN_FGjtu4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now the conflict in which our ship captains were getting murdered in the days of Thomas Jefferson actually was resolved with a dialogue.&#160; The product of that dialogue was the Treaty of Tripoli.&#160; It was ratified unanimously by the founding fathers that comprised the Senate at that time, and it states that the US is not a Christian nation, and the US has no objections to Islam.&#160; This is the exact opposite of Tanteros\u2019 Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian rant.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This was just one of five insane Republican rants from last week alone!&#160; Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the envelope on just how Insane InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. \u2026Fox host confuses ISIS with Islam\u2014suggests <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/last-weeks-insane-republican-rants\/' 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":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537","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=13537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}