{"id":188064,"date":"2010-12-20T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/20\/this-is-not-a-gaffe-this-is-a-campaign-strategy\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:08:00","slug":"this-is-not-a-gaffe-this-is-a-campaign-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/20\/this-is-not-a-gaffe-this-is-a-campaign-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Gaffe, This is a Campaign Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of hand wringing and out rage over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/21\/us\/politics\/21barbour.html\">Haley Barbour&#8217;s comments supporting the activities of the white supremacist White Citizens\u2019 Councils in the 1960s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this misses the point.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does Barbour have a long tradition of appealing to bigots, but it is clear that he wants to run for president, and a not so veiled appeal to the tradition of white bigotry in the South goes a long way towards appealing to that demographic in the primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of hand wringing and out rage over Haley Barbour&#8217;s comments supporting the activities of the white supremacist White Citizens\u2019 Councils in the 1960s. I think that this misses the point. Not only does Barbour have a long tradition of appealing to bigots, but it is clear that he wants to run &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,978,977,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188064"}],"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=188064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}