{"id":38415,"date":"2019-12-12T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38415"},"modified":"2019-12-12T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:23:54","slug":"republicans-on-parade-12-12-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/republicans-on-parade-12-12-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 12\/12\/2017"},"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 seventieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Trump sycophant white supremacist pastor, Rick Wiles. He is so honored for the typically Republican anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories he employs against impeaching his Fuhrer. This is his second parade. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/republicans-on-parade-6-26-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He earned the first on 6\/26\/2018<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> for accusing Democrats of plotting to murder Republicans.<\/span><\/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=\"1212Rick-Wiles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1212Rick-Wiles.jpg\" alt=\"1212Rick-Wiles\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Rick Wiles, the far-right Christian fundamentalist pastor and radio host who founded TruNews, has a long history of bigotry \u2014 and that includes a lot of anti-Semitism to go with his anti-Islam, anti-gay and anti-feminist views. Regardless, Wiles has enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/congress-members-urge-trump-to-shun-outlet-that-called-impeachment-a-jew-coup-1.8257071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media credentials<\/a> in the Trump White House, but two Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives want those credentials revoked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/backgrounders\/trunews-and-rick-wiles-end-times-anti-semitism-and-anti-zionism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiles\u2019 anti-Semitism<\/a> was much in evidence in a video that was posted on TruNews\u2019 YouTube channel on November 22. In the video, <strong>Wiles claimed that Jews are behind efforts to impeach President Donald Trump: Wiles described Trump as the victim of a \u201cJew coup\u201d and claimed that Jews will \u201ckill millions of Christians\u201d after they succeed in removing the president from office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube banned TruNews\u2019 channel from its video-sharing platform following Wiles\u2019 anti-Semitic rant. And Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida and Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia, in a letter sent to Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Monday, asserted that Wiles should be banned from all White House media events&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/12\/house-members-want-extremist-pastors-white-house-media-credentials-revoked-after-rant-calling-trump-impeachment-a-jew-coup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I know that&#8217;s hard to believe, so here it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_QNHfuLgjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pastor Rick Wiles Says Impeachment is A Jew Coup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/i_QNHfuLgjk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I figure that rates a parade, because it&#8217;s hard to get more Republican than that!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 seventieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Trump sycophant white supremacist pastor, Rick Wiles. He is so honored for the typically Republican anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories he employs against impeaching his Fuhrer. This is his second <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/republicans-on-parade-12-12-2017\/' 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":[3779,3734,3752,3783,3714,3754],"class_list":["post-38415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-gop-hate","tag-pseudo-christians","tag-republicans-on-parade","tag-video","tag-white-supremacy","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\/38415","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=38415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}