{"id":188642,"date":"2010-08-19T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/19\/a-few-more-people-on-the-right-side-of-51-park\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T22:23:00","slug":"a-few-more-people-on-the-right-side-of-51-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/19\/a-few-more-people-on-the-right-side-of-51-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few More People on the Right Side of 51 Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they are Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/franken-attacks-on-cordoba-house-one-of-the-most-disgraceful-things-that-ive-heard.php\">Senator Al Franken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is slamming conservative opposition to the Muslim community center project near Ground Zero in New York City &#8212; the city where he formerly resided for many years &#8212; calling the attacks against it &#8220;one of the most disgraceful things that I&#8217;ve heard.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/rangel-im-proud-cordoba-house-developers-are-sticking-to-their-guns.php\">Congressman Charlie Rangel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) came out in support  of the proposed Cordoba House Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero yesterday, saying that he&#8217;s &#8220;kind of proud that they&#8217;re sticking to their guns and saying this is where they would want to worship.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, lesser plaudits to Nancy Pelosi, who suggested that the anti-Islamic Center movement might be AstroTurf, though <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/08\/pelosi_clarifies_call_for_prob.html\">she walked it back a bit later in the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they are Democrats. Senator Al Franken: Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is slamming conservative opposition to the Muslim community center project near Ground Zero in New York City &#8212; the city where he formerly resided for many years &#8212; calling the attacks against it &#8220;one of the most disgraceful things that I&#8217;ve heard.&#8221; And Congressman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,964,1051,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-hypocrisy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188642"}],"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=188642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}