{"id":69731,"date":"2019-01-18T05:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69731"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:26:58","slug":"i-can-honestly-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69731","title":{"rendered":"I Can Honestly Say&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;that if Ilhan Omar were a white, Presbyterian, Christian, humble, quiet-spoken conservative with an actual record of public service who said crap like this, I&#8217;d be mocking, taunting and condemning him &#8211; er, her, or whatever &#8211; with just as much <em>schadenfreudy<\/em> glee as I am today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because they&#8217;d both have it coming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First &#8211; the rumor mill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Omar: &quot;Lots of Americans&quot; agree with me that Trump is blackmailing Sen. Graham over his homosexuality <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xPMAUHSLYE\">pic.twitter.com\/xPMAUHSLYE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1085923408360194054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to get the feeling that whole &#8220;accepting gays&#8221; thing Democrats jabber about is just a ploy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, yes, there&#8217;s the whole &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.argusleader.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2019\/01\/17\/ilhan-omar-tweet-controversy\/2603030002\/\">antisemitic<\/a>&#8221; bit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Another Omar tweet from 2012 has drawn accusations of anti-Semitism against the congresswoman, who was appointed to a seat on the House Foreign Relations Committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday.\u00a0<br>&#8220;Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,&#8221; Omar\u00a0tweeted during an Israeli military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.\u00a0<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that the DFL is the party of intersectionality, it&#8217;s nothing she can&#8217;t fix among Democrats by declaring herself a lesbian and using it to shame any (white, Jewish, Democrat) critics that might pop up.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which they won&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that if Ilhan Omar were a white, Presbyterian, Christian, humble, quiet-spoken conservative with an actual record of public service who said crap like this, I&#8217;d be mocking, taunting and condemning him &#8211; er, her, or whatever &#8211; with just as much schadenfreudy glee as I am today. Because they&#8217;d both have it coming. First &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-69731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69731","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=69731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69733,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69731\/revisions\/69733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}