{"id":15263,"date":"2015-05-17T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2015-05-17T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:40:02","slug":"last-weeks-idiotic-republican-moments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/17\/last-weeks-idiotic-republican-moments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Idiotic Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how idiotic InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hateful right-wing pundits: Homosexuality was a factor in the Amtrak crash.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\"0517amtrak\"Homosexuality is the reason for floods, hurricanes, and of course, 9\/11. You might as well tack on the Amtrak crash this week to its long list of accomplishments. When it came to light that the engineer on the train was a supporter of gay rights, and possibly gay himself, that was all the opening the haters needed. Anti-gay haters like Chuck C. Johnson<\/a><\/font> and the editors of WorldNetDaily [World Nut Daily Delinked<\/em>]immediately jumped aboard that runaway train of thought, citing dubious statistics about higher rates of mental illness in the gay community. <\/font><\/p>\n

Not to be outdone, the American Family Association’s ever level-headed governmental affairs director, Sandy Rios, told her radio listeners that the engineer\u2019s sexual orientation was probably \u201ca factor\u201d in the crash.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rios said, per RightWingWatch<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cNow I am not saying, I am not inferring to those of you that are gay rights activists and like to monitor this show, I\u2019m not inferring that this accident happened because he was gay, but I do think it\u2019s an interesting part of the story and you can bet it would be edited out,\u201d Rios said. She then suggested that the engineer could have possibly been \u201cgoing through some confusion that has to do with the very core of who they are,\u201d and mentioned the story of an airline pilot who \u201cput his entire plane at risk because he had an emotional, angry outburst to something that happened,\u201d which she says was related to hormone therapy he was receiving.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rios added: \u201cI don\u2019t know, but I think it is something to be discussed and I think it\u2019s a factor and I doubt you will hear it anywhere else.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

We wish we could ignore this dangerous nonsense. But we can’t.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Every time Republicans murder people by cutting funding that would have saved their lives, they find a way to blame it on Obama, black people, gay people, immigrants, poor people, women or another group they target for discrimination.  This only the fifth of five idiotic Republican moments from last week alone.  Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how idiotic InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Hateful right-wing pundits: Homosexuality was a factor […]<\/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-15263","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\/15263","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=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}