{"id":34341,"date":"2018-11-13T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T21:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34341"},"modified":"2018-11-13T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T21:32:00","slug":"republicans-on-parade-11-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/13\/republicans-on-parade-11-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 11\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RepublicansOnParade2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here is the one hundred forty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]. She is so honored for supporting the proud KKK heritage of lynching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) demanded a public apology \u2014 for all Mississippians \u2014 from Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who drew harsh criticism for a line made while campaigning in early November.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"1113Cindy-Hyde-Smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1113Cindy-Hyde-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"1113Cindy-Hyde-Smith\" width=\"360\" height=\"353\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>\u201c<strong>If he invited me to a public hanging, I\u2019d be on the front row<\/strong>,\u201d Hyde-Smith is heard saying in a video posted to Twitter by journalist and blogger Lamar White Jr. on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson released a statement Monday, calling the senator\u2019s comments on public hanging \u201cbeyond disrespectful and offensive,\u201d adding that Mississippi\u2019s history includes \u201cone of the highest numbers of public lynching, that we know of, than any other state in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hyde-Smith, who in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldHarrisTV\/status\/1062094081013243908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday statement<\/a> called the remark an \u201cexaggerated expression of regard,\u201d refused to elaborate Monday when reporters asked for more context. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonfreepress.com\/news\/2018\/nov\/12\/governor-calls-abortion-black-genocide-defends-hyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She appeared in Jackson<\/a>, the state\u2019s capital, with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) \u2014 who appointed Hyde-Smith to Congress earlier this year \u2014 after accepting an endorsement from the National Right to Life Committee&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/11\/senator-mississippi-joked-about-public-hanging-her-black-opponent-called-it-reprehensible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This racist went even further by refusing to apologize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vGc_249TRAs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They don&#8217;t get much more Republican than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred forty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]. She is so honored for supporting the proud KKK heritage of lynching. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) demanded a public apology \u2014 for all Mississippians <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/13\/republicans-on-parade-11-13-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34341","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\/34341","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=34341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}