{"id":183307,"date":"2014-12-29T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/29\/this-isnt-a-scandal-its-a-bullet-point-on-a-republican-political-resume\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:53:00","slug":"this-isnt-a-scandal-its-a-bullet-point-on-a-republican-political-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/29\/this-isnt-a-scandal-its-a-bullet-point-on-a-republican-political-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"This Isn&#8217;t a Scandal, It&#8217;s a Bullet Point on a Republican Political Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the new House Majority Whip in the Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/30\/us\/politics\/louisiana-congressman-steve-scalise-acknowledges-addressing-racist-group-in-2002.html\">spoke to David Duke&#8217;s white supremacist group in 2002<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Scalise made his remarks to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, which was founded two years earlier by David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana politician. Mr. Scalise was a Louisiana state legislator at the time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Southern Poverty Law Center has described the organization \u2014 which uses EURO as an acronym \u2014 as a hate group, while noting that in recent years it has \u201caccomplished little\u201d and serves \u201cprimarily as a vehicle to publicize Duke\u2019s writing and sell his books.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Moira Bagley Smith, a Scalise spokeswoman, said the congressman \u201chas never been affiliated with the abhorrent group in question.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>Why are you dissing your base?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, David Duke in 2002?&nbsp; How could you not know who you were talking to.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the Republican party is far less inclusive than it was in 2002, when Trent Lott was bounced as Senate Majority leader for endorsing Strom Thrumond&#8217;s 1948 segregationist bid for the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the new House Majority Whip in the Congress spoke to David Duke&#8217;s white supremacist group in 2002: Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183307"}],"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=183307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}