{"id":30254,"date":"2012-09-06T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30254"},"modified":"2012-09-06T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T12:01:31","slug":"remember-theyre-the-smart-ones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30254","title":{"rendered":"Remember – They’re The Smart Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrat Congresswoman bobbles the history<\/a> in all 57 states:<\/p>\n

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) appeared to botch American and Brooklyn political history during an appearance on “The Colbert Report” that aired Tuesday night, saying that slavery in the United States persisted under the Dutch as late as 1898.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Dutch left in 1674.<\/p>\n

Colbert was quizzing Clarke on the history of her borough.<\/p>\n

“Some have called Brooklyn\u2019s decision to become part of New York City ‘The Great Mistake of 1898,’ ” Colbert said. “If you could get in a time machine and go back to 1898, what would you say to those Brooklynites?”<\/p>\n

“I would say to them, ‘Set me free,’ ” Clarke said.
\nPressed by Colbert what she would be free from, the black congresswoman responded, “Slavery.”<\/p>\n

“Slavery. Really? I didn\u2019t realize there was slavery in Brooklyn in 1898,” Colbert responded, seemingly looking to give the lawmaker a chance to catch her error.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m pretty sure there was,” Clarke responded.<\/p>\n

“It sounds like a horrible part of the United States that kept slavery going until 1898,” the late-night comedian then quipped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m frankly amazed Colbert didn’t switch the subject. \u00a0Maybe start painting her toenails…<\/p>\n

Colbert pressed on, asking, “Who would be enslaving you in 1898 in New York?”<\/p>\n

At that point, Clarke responded, “The Dutch.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember: \u00a0Liberals are teh smart!<\/p>\n

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Democrat Congresswoman bobbles the history in all 57 states: Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) appeared to botch American and Brooklyn political history during an appearance on “The Colbert Report” that aired Tuesday night, saying that slavery in the United States persisted under the Dutch as late as 1898. The Dutch left in 1674. Colbert was quizzing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254","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=30254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30257,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254\/revisions\/30257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}