{"id":2592,"date":"2010-08-18T03:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2010-08-18T03:02:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T10:02:42","slug":"pawlentys-hateful-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/pawlentys-hateful-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawlenty’s Hateful Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican Politicians are falling over each other trying to out-hate each other over the \u2018Ground Zero\u2019 mosque, which isn\u2019t a Mosque and isn\u2019t at ground zero.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18pawlenty\"<\/a> Add Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) to the list politicians with selective memory about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s global outreach on behalf of the United States.<\/p>\n

Pawlenty, a presidential hopeful for 2012, appeared on Fox News’ "Hannity" last night to decry Obama’s support for the Islamic cultural center proposed by Rauf’s Cordoba House at a site two blocks from Ground Zero. He also criticized the State Department for sending Rauf on a diplomatic mission to the Middle East, saying that was "disgusting" and "dangerous."<\/p>\n

"To have him be the leader not just of this mosque but to hire him through the State Department and send him around the world on our behalf is ridiculous<\/strong>," Pawlenty told Sean Hannity. "It is quite quite dangerous, quite concerning."<\/p>\n

But Pawlenty failed to mention a key fact (which TPM reported last week<\/a>) that Rauf has been doing similar diplomatic work going back to George W. Bush’s administration.<\/strong> Rauf attended the 2006 U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar; in 2007 went to Morocco; and he worked closely with Bush-era Muslim outreach aides<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In addition, Rauf has been working with the FBI for over six years helping to prevent terrorism.<\/font><\/p>\n

I guess makes Bush a terrorist supporter too.  (Actually he was, but Republicans call their terrorists \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d.)<\/font><\/p>\n

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Republican Politicians are falling over each other trying to out-hate each other over the \u2018Ground Zero\u2019 mosque, which isn\u2019t a Mosque and isn\u2019t at ground zero. Add Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) to the list politicians with selective memory about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s global outreach on behalf of the United States. Pawlenty, a presidential […]<\/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-2592","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\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}