{"id":177663,"date":"2019-07-19T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/19\/this-is-a-thing-of-beauty\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T23:50:00","slug":"this-is-a-thing-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/19\/this-is-a-thing-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Thing of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guarantee you that that Mr. Costa thought that he had a great &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question here, and Sanders owns his lame ass attempt to put half quotes in his mouth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">if you come at the king <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uDaO0o02Lz\">pic.twitter.com\/uDaO0o02Lz<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Current Affairs (@curaffairs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curaffairs\/status\/1151232159950278657\">July 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interviewer comes after Sanders with half a quote, and Sanders remembers the whole quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>MR. COSTA<\/b>: Let&#8217;s stick with that race point you just brought up. In 1974, you said that bussing policies were well meaning in theory but sometimes result in &#8220;racial hostility.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>SEN. SANDERS<\/b>: What else did I say in that?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>MR. COSTA<\/b>: Tell me.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>SEN. SANDERS<\/b>: No, you got it there. Read it. Read the whole quote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>MR. COSTA<\/b>: I don&#8217;t have the whole quote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">[Laughter]<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>SEN. SANDERS<\/b>: The whole quote is the federal government doesn&#8217;t give a sh%$ about African Americans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>MR. COSTA<\/b>: Well, that is true. That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t include it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>SEN. SANDERS<\/b>: All right. Okay.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The point that Sanders was making, and the point that he remembered from 45 years ago, was that the Federal government was refusing to enforce fair housing laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guarantee you that that Mr. Costa thought that he had a great &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question here, and Sanders owns his lame ass attempt to put half quotes in his mouth. if you come at the king pic.twitter.com\/uDaO0o02Lz \u2014 Current Affairs (@curaffairs) July 16, 2019 An interviewer comes after Sanders with half a quote, and Sanders &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[615,490,401,584],"class_list":["post-177663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-hack-journalism","tag-video","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}