{"id":179484,"date":"2018-01-24T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/24\/a-mulligan-seriously\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:12:00","slug":"a-mulligan-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/24\/a-mulligan-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mulligan?  Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Perkins, Christofascist President of the Family Research Council, an SPLC designated hate group, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/01\/23\/tony-perkins-evangelicals-donald-trump-stormy-daniels-216498\">announced that he is giving Donald Trump a &#8220;Mulligan\u2019 on cheating on his pregnant wife with a porn star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders\u2019 prayers. Or at least to their continuing grievances.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They embrace Trump the policymaker, despite being uneasy about Trump as a man, says Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a prominent evangelical activist group.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Perkins knows about Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who claimed, in a 2011 interview, that in 2006 she had sex with Trump four months after his wife, Melania, gave birth to their son, Barron. He knows of the reports that Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford) was paid off to keep the affair quiet in the waning weeks of the 2016 election. He knows about the cursing, the lewdness and the litany of questionable behavior over the past year of Trump\u2019s life or the 70 that came before it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe kind of gave him\u2014\u2018All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here,\u2019\u201d Perkins told me in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO\u2019s Off Message podcast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Weigh a paid-off porn star against being the first president to address the March for Life live via video feed, and a lot of evangelical leaders insist they can still walk away happy <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hypocrisy much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Perkins, Christofascist President of the Family Research Council, an SPLC designated hate group, has announced that he is giving Donald Trump a &#8220;Mulligan\u2019 on cheating on his pregnant wife with a porn star: Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders\u2019 prayers. Or at least to their continuing grievances.They embrace Trump &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":[573,364,387,374,380,403],"class_list":["post-179484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179484"}],"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=179484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}