{"id":185499,"date":"2014-11-03T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/03\/the-least-likely-democrat-to-tell-the-truth-and-to-not-backtrack-about-it-is\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:34:00","slug":"the-least-likely-democrat-to-tell-the-truth-and-to-not-backtrack-about-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/03\/the-least-likely-democrat-to-tell-the-truth-and-to-not-backtrack-about-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Least Likely Democrat to Tell the Truth and to not Backtrack About it Is\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be Mary Landrieu, who said that part of the hostility against Obama in the South had its roots in racism, that&#8217;s the truth bit, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/10\/mary-landrieu-stands-her-comments-south\">she has refused to apologize for speaking the truth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu made conservative heads explode by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alan.com\/2014\/10\/31\/landrieu-south-not-always-been-the-frienliest-place-for-african-americans-for-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stating a truth<\/a>,  that the South has not always been the friendliest place go  African-Americans and to women. Landrieu&#8217;s campaign put out a press  release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/mary-landrieu-stands-by-comments-about-souths-treatment-of-african-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standing by her comments<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a level of guts and honesty that I would never have expected of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be Mary Landrieu, who said that part of the hostility against Obama in the South had its roots in racism, that&#8217;s the truth bit, and now she has refused to apologize for speaking the truth: Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu made conservative heads explode by stating a truth, that the South has not always &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1245,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-honesty","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185499"}],"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=185499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}