{"id":32146,"date":"2018-04-17T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32146"},"modified":"2018-04-18T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:06:11","slug":"republicans-on-parade-4-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/republicans-on-parade-4-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 4\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred twelfth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Representative for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, Martha McSally She is so honored for her Republican bigotry and hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before she was a U.S. Representative for Arizona and a U.S. Senate candidate, Martha McSally made her name as an Air Force pilot from Rhode Island who sued the Department of Defense<\/a> in 2002 to avoid having to wear an abaya off-base while stationed in Saudi Arabia. But a year later, in a commencement speech at Rhode Island College (in which she says Rhode Island is her home state), she told an Islamophobic and tasteless joke that foreshadowed her anti-immigrant, xenophobic political career<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As the recipient of an honorary degree from Rhode Island College, a public institution located in Providence, McSally told graduates that she was thankful to be \u201chome from Saudi Arabia.\u201d After mispronouncing<\/a> the name of the college\u2019s president, she began her address noting that she\u2019d spent roughly 500 days deployed there over the previous two-plus years. Affecting a mocking Saudi accent, she joked that she\u2019d been there so often that, on her last trip there, a Saudi officer had seen her and said, \u201cAh, welcome home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI said \u2018I gotta find another line of work. This is not good,\u201d she quipped.\u00a0 It went downhill from there… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s The video<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n