{"id":2707,"date":"2002-12-06T22:26:01","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2002-12-06T22:26:01","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T22:26:01","slug":"laughing-my-ass-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"LAUGHING MY ASS OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as Trent Lott gives back the advances the GOP has made in the last few years. In today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A20730-2002Dec6.html\">washingtonpost.com<\/a>, via the entire freaking blogpverse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Sen. Thurmond (R-S.C.) in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Lott said, &#8220;I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We&#8217;re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn&#8217;t have had all these problems over all these years, either.&#8221;<br \/>\nThurmond, then governor of South Carolina, was the presidential nominee of the breakaway Dixiecrat Party in 1948. He carried Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and his home state. He declared during his campaign against Democrat Harry S. Truman, who supported civil rights legislation, and Republican Thomas Dewey: &#8220;All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn July 17, 1948, delegates from 13 southern states gathered in Birmingham to nominate Thurmond and adopt a platform that said in part, &#8220;We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a racist in 1948 was evil.<br \/>\nSuggesting in 2002 that that was a good thing is amazingly stupid <b>and evil<\/b>.<br \/>\nIn case all my GOP commenters wonder why I haven&#8217;t switched parties&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as Trent Lott gives back the advances the GOP has made in the last few years. In today&#8217;s washingtonpost.com, via the entire freaking blogpverse. Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Sen. Thurmond (R-S.C.) in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Lott said, &#8220;I want to say this about my state: When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}