{"id":189289,"date":"2010-04-22T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/22\/gaffe-when-a-politician-tells-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T02:32:00","slug":"gaffe-when-a-politician-tells-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/22\/gaffe-when-a-politician-tells-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaffe: When a Politician Tells the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Steel&#8217;s latest comment, which appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2010\/04\/michael-steele-on-why-african-americans-should-vote-republican-you-really-dont-have-a-reason-to-to-be-honest.html\">driving Republicans crazy<\/a>, and making Democrats chuckle, yet again:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>For the last 40-plus years we had a &#8216;Southern Strategy&#8217; that alienated  many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote is factually correct.  We literally have the memos, reproduced in the writings of folks like former Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>But nonetheless, the Republicans are freaking, so, Dave Weigel talks to Republicans, and <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/right-now\/2010\/04\/steeles_biggest_gaffe_so_far.html\">gets  a quote from Bruce Bartlett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I think it&#8217;s too bad that Steele gave Democrats reason to believe that  their distorted vision of how Republicans came to dominate the South is  correct. It may be his biggest <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">gaffe<\/span> so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett is upset because this is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Steel&#8217;s latest comment, which appears to be driving Republicans crazy, and making Democrats chuckle, yet again: For the last 40-plus years we had a &#8216;Southern Strategy&#8217; that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. This quote is factually correct. We literally have the memos, reproduced in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189289"}],"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=189289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}