{"id":198,"date":"2008-10-13T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-10-13T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T17:18:56","slug":"john-lewis-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These quotes illustrates that the practice of coded language so enjoyed by Republicans over the past forty years (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Rage-Conservatism-Transformation-American\/dp\/0807125970\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1223906910&#038;sr=1-1\">Dan Carter<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chain-Reaction-Impact-American-Politics\/dp\/0393309037\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1223906877&#038;sr=8-5\">Edsalls<\/a> for a thorough description) has proven to be a great shield from direct criticism.  It offers a kind of plausible deniability for those without integrity.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all,&#8221; Lewis said today. &#8220;They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These quotes illustrates that the practice of coded language so enjoyed by Republicans over the past forty years (see Dan Carter or the Edsalls for a thorough description) has proven to be a great shield from direct criticism. It offers a kind of plausible deniability for those without integrity. &#8220;George Wallace never threw a bomb. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Lewis quotes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-3c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}