{"id":10647,"date":"2010-05-05T06:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2010-05-05T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T11:47:38","slug":"thanks-for-all-that-civility-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10647","title":{"rendered":"Thanks For All That Civility, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/05\/president-obama-gop-opposition-to-stimulus-helped-to-create-the-teabaggers.html\">refers to Tea Partiers as &#8220;Tea-Baggers&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.<\/p>\n<p>In Jonathan Alter\u2019s \u201cThe Promise: President Obama, Year One,\u201d President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills \u201cset the tenor for the whole year &#8230; That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tea Party activists loath the term \u201ctea baggers,\u201d which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess this means calling half of America &#8220;bitter gun-clinging Jesus Freaks&#8221; wasn&#8217;t an out-of-context mis-step?<\/p>\n<p>Question for my liberal readers:\u00a0 Does that fact that I&#8217;m writing about this make me racist, seditionary, or merely extremist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President refers to Tea Partiers as &#8220;Tea-Baggers&#8221;: Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations. In Jonathan Alter\u2019s \u201cThe Promise: President Obama, Year One,\u201d President Obama is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10650,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}