{"id":191365,"date":"2009-08-28T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/bringing-on-the-stupid-lynn-jenkins-r-2nd-district-kansas\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T01:37:00","slug":"bringing-on-the-stupid-lynn-jenkins-r-2nd-district-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/bringing-on-the-stupid-lynn-jenkins-r-2nd-district-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing on the Stupid, Lynn Jenkins (R-2nd District, Kansas)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was talking about politics at a town hall, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cjonline.com\/news\/state\/2009-08-26\/jenkins_remark_raises_eyebrows\">let slip the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a &#8216;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">great white hope<\/span>&#8216; capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am speechless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was talking about politics at a town hall, and let slip the following: U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a &#8216;great white hope&#8216; capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama. I am &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,998,978,988,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-congress","category-politics","category-race","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191365"}],"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=191365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}