{"id":184740,"date":"2012-01-31T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/31\/facepalm-4\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T01:32:00","slug":"facepalm-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/31\/facepalm-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Facepalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Y6AoQ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img576.imageshack.us\/img576\/9061\/homersimpsonfacepalm.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Just when you thought that New Jersey could not get any more pathetic, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/nj-gov-calls-gay-state-lawmaker-numb-nuts-for-comparing-him-to-late-segregationist-governors\/2012\/01\/30\/gIQAUQM6cQ_story.html\">said that civil rights leaders in the 1950s and 1960s would have been cool with a referendum to give civil rights without regard to race<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The verbal feud over gay marriage in New Jersey got more personal Monday with Gov. Chris Christie firing a slang term<\/span> [numb nuts] <span style=\"color: blue;\">at a lawmaker, and a hero of the Civil Rights movement chastising the governor for a separate remark.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">The issue also brought U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia to Trenton on Monday to take Christie to task for comments linking gay marriage to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">Christie last week vowed to veto any gay marriage bill that reaches his desk. He instead called for the question to be put to voters in November.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights, rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South,\u201d Christie said after an event in Central Jersey.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">Black leaders pounced. Newark Mayor Cory Booker said baseball great Jackie Robinson would not have had the opportunity to break the sport\u2019s color barrier had the matter been put to a vote, and the mayor himself would not have had the opportunity, years later, to be elected to lead New Jersey\u2019s largest city. Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver said many felt the sting of Christie\u2019s comment.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">Gusciora, who is white, said Christie would have found allies in late Alabama Gov. George Wallace and late Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, both segregationists.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what qualifies as a deep thought by the &#8216;Phants.<\/p>\n<p>God, what a repulsive person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that New Jersey could not get any more pathetic, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that civil rights leaders in the 1950s and 1960s would have been cool with a referendum to give civil rights without regard to race: The verbal feud over gay marriage in New Jersey got more personal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,1051,1020,1030,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184740"}],"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=184740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}