{"id":194629,"date":"2008-09-04T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/04\/lynn-westmoreland-someone-who-bigots-can-point-at-and-say\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T01:48:00","slug":"lynn-westmoreland-someone-who-bigots-can-point-at-and-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/04\/lynn-westmoreland-someone-who-bigots-can-point-at-and-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Westmoreland Someone Who Bigots Can Point At And Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, I&#8217;m no bigot, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-2008-09-04.html\">Congressman Lynn Westmorland of Georgia, now <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">there&#8217;s<\/span> a bigot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Just from what little I\u2019ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they&#8217;re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they&#8217;re uppity,&#8221; Westmoreland said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to clarify that he used the word \u201cuppity,\u201d Westmoreland said, \u201cUppity, yeah.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, if he had said this just two weeks earlier, he&#8217;d be the vice presidential nominee right now.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we should be grateful that he didn&#8217;t use the term n*gg*r.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, I&#8217;m no bigot, Congressman Lynn Westmorland of Georgia, now there&#8217;s a bigot: &#8220;Just from what little I\u2019ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they&#8217;re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they&#8217;re uppity,&#8221; Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word \u201cuppity,\u201d Westmoreland said, \u201cUppity, yeah.\u201d Needless to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,998,1040,977,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-congress","category-former-soviet-union","category-presidential-campaign","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194629"}],"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=194629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}