{"id":284324,"date":"2010-02-05T21:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75941"},"modified":"2010-02-05T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T02:35:29","slug":"a-congressional-bid-and-a-birther-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/284324","title":{"rendered":"A Congressional Bid and a Birther Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE &#8212; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelamcglowan.com\/\">author and Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan<\/a> &#8212; one of very few African-Americans present at the National Tea Party Convention &#8212; used a short dinner speech to basically announce a bid against Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.). &#8220;I can&#8217;t announce it now,&#8221; she said, but on Monday, she&#8217;d announce something &#8212; and by the way, Childers &#8220;is about to lose his job!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Farah, the editor in chief of WorldNetDaily, took the stage after McGlowan and ran with the ball. &#8220;I get to be the first person to formally endorse your quest!&#8221; Farah went on to give a speech that focused, for around 10 minutes, on his questions about Barack Obama&#8217;s birth certificate &#8212; about which I&#8217;ll write more shortly.<span id=\"more-75941\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>McGlowan&#8217;s speech was notable, too, for a really amazing bit of product placement. &#8220;Now why did I join the Tea Party movement?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;It was the same reason I wrote my book, &#8216;Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda.&#8217;&#8221; She said the whole subtitle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE &#8212; The author and Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan &#8212; one of very few African-Americans present at the National Tea Party Convention &#8212; used a short dinner speech to basically announce a bid against Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.). &#8220;I can&#8217;t announce it now,&#8221; she said, but on Monday, she&#8217;d announce something &#8212; and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}