{"id":183294,"date":"2015-01-03T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/03\/pass-the-popcorn-36\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T02:35:00","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/03\/pass-the-popcorn-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 210px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/drama.gif\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pass the Popcorn<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In response to the scandal over incoming House Whip Steve Scalise&#8217;s giving talk at a David Duke funded group in 2002, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/02\/david-duke-steve-scalise_n_6406844.html\">David Duke has spoken<\/a>, and he has a list:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan at the center of a brewing congressional scandal, told Fusion on Monday that two of his top associates invited Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) to a conference hosted by a controversial Duke-founded group in 2002.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Scalise, the House Majority whip, has come under fire after reports emerged he had spoken before the conference in 2002. Duke\u2019s group, the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO, has been described as a \u201chate group\u201d by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a characterization Duke rejects.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Scalise\u2019s office didn\u2019t deny he had spoken at the conference \u2014 stopping short of confirming it \u2014 but pleaded ignorance and said he was \u201cnever affiliated with the abhorrent group in question.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Duke told Fusion he has met with Scalise several times, along with other members of Louisiana\u2019s congressional delegation. He believes two close associates \u2014 Howie Farrell and Kenny Knight \u2014 invited Scalise to speak at the conference.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And he delivered a warning to both Republicans and Democrats: Treat Scalise fairly, and don\u2019t try to make political hay out of the situation. Or he said he <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">would be inclined to release a list of names of all the politicians<\/span><\/b> \u2014 both Republicans and Democrats \u2014 with whom he has ties.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf Scalise is going to be crucified \u2014 if Republicans want to throw Steve Scalise to the woods, <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">then a lot of them better be looking over their shoulders<\/span><\/b>,\u201d Duke said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>If you are a politician that he has called out, I&#8217;d be worried.<\/p>\n<p>Relying on the kindness of David Duke is not what I could calling a winning strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the Popcorn In response to the scandal over incoming House Whip Steve Scalise&#8217;s giving talk at a David Duke funded group in 2002, David Duke has spoken, and he has a list: David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan at the center of a brewing congressional scandal, told Fusion on Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1011,978,1001,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-history","category-politics","category-racism","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183294"}],"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=183294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}