{"id":6779,"date":"2011-02-15T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2011-02-15T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:56:32","slug":"the-lefts-appalling-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/02\/15\/the-lefts-appalling-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s Appalling Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/028370.php\">PowerLine Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>On Friday, AlterNet&#8211;you know, the organization that &#8220;confront[s] the failures of corporate media, as well as the vitriol and disinformation of right wing media, especially &#8216;hate talk&#8217; media&#8221;&#8211;published a vile attack on conservative businessman Herman Cain, who was the last speaker at CPAC:<\/p>\n<p>    In the immortal words of Megatron in Transformers: The Movie, Herman Cain&#8217;s speech at CPAC really is bad comedy. As you know, I find black garbage pail kids black conservatives fascinating not because of what they believe, but rather because of how they entertain and perform for their White Conservative masters. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    Instead, Herman Cain&#8217;s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs &#8220;authentic negritude&#8221; as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/2011\/02\/12\/black-history-month-is-herman-cain-playing-the-race-minstrel-for-cpac\/\">Read more of the racist tirade on Alternet&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"520\" height=\"323\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9ZDkacOveF0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9ZDkacOveF0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"520\" height=\"323\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PowerLine Blog: On Friday, AlterNet&#8211;you know, the organization that &#8220;confront[s] the failures of corporate media, as well as the vitriol and disinformation of right wing media, especially &#8216;hate talk&#8217; media&#8221;&#8211;published a vile attack on conservative businessman Herman Cain, who was the last speaker at CPAC: In the immortal words of Megatron in Transformers: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6780,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}