{"id":181,"date":"2009-09-15T19:14:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T01:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-09-15T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:50:39","slug":"isnt-it-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t it interesting .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it interesting that when Congressman Joe Williams, in a fit of enthusiasm, commits a faux pas unprecedented in the history of the Congress, shouts out &#8220;liar&#8221; while listening to the President lie about his program,\u00a0 that a renowned columnist from the New York Times, Maureen Dowd, characterises his shame as &#8220;racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Disregarding that the congressman tendered his apology that was accepted by the President, the &#8220;racist&#8221; theme continues to be railed on by enraged Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am getting sick and tried of the Dems &#8220;demonizing&#8221; everybody and everything that they view as a threat to their territory.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that Joe Williams is a southern Republican and to many that label conjures the old slave south.\u00a0 One of today&#8217;s Democratic demonizers was Congressman Hank Johnson, an African American.\u00a0 He said (essentially), &#8221; the racist remarks of the Congressman, conjures visions of faces covered with white sheets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enough!\u00a0 doesn&#8217;t this black man know that it was the Republicans that freed the slaves of the old south?\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t he know that it was the Democrats, both North and South, that promoted slavery throughout the entire United States?\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t he know that the white sheeted Ku Klux Klan was the post-bellum para-military terrorist arm of the Democratic Party?\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t he know that the man third in line to the Presidency, Democrat Robert Byrd, was a Klanner?\u00a0 I wonder if he can name one Republican member of the Klan?\u00a0 The Klan lynched about 7500 people in 100 years &#8212; approximately 6000 were blacks, can he guess how many of the 1500 whites were Republicans?<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to demonize sir, please get your facts together.\u00a0 And why, I ask, do you venerate the party that persecuted your ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it interesting that when Congressman Joe Williams, in a fit of enthusiasm, commits a faux pas unprecedented in the history of the Congress, shouts out &#8220;liar&#8221; while listening to the President lie about his program,\u00a0 that a renowned columnist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}