{"id":462053,"date":"2010-03-23T07:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74661"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:45:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:45:55","slug":"early-morning-swim-keith-olbermann%e2%80%99s-special-comment-on-bigotry-in-tea-party-movement-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462053","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann\u2019s Special Comment on Bigotry in Tea Party Movement, GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"281\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/upv4FUkVbjo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/upv4FUkVbjo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"281\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bob Herbert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/23\/opinion\/23herbert.html\">is blistering this morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>At some point, we have to decide as a country that we just can\u2019t have  this: We can\u2019t allow ourselves to remain silent as foaming-at-the-mouth  protesters scream the vilest of epithets at members of Congress \u2014  epithets that The Times will not allow me to repeat here.<\/p>\n<p>It is  2010, which means it is way past time for decent Americans to rise up  against this kind of garbage, to fight it aggressively wherever it  appears. <strong>And it is time for every American of good will to hold the  Republican Party accountable for its role in tolerating, shielding and  encouraging foul, mean-spirited and bigoted behavior in its ranks and  among its strongest supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This is the party of trickle down and weapons of mass destruction,  the party of birthers and death-panel lunatics. This is the party that  genuflects at the altar of right-wing talk radio, with its insane,  nauseating, nonstop commitment to hatred and bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Beck  of Fox News has called President Obama a \u201cracist\u201d and asserted that he  \u201chas exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a  deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike  Huckabee, a former Republican presidential candidate, has said of Mr.  Obama\u2019s economic policies: \u201cLenin and Stalin would love this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The  G.O.P. poisons the political atmosphere and then has the gall to  complain about an absence of bipartisanship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. Herbert has never been better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/early-morning-swim\/\" rel=\"tag\">Early Morning Swim<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74661&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_74661\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Bob Herbert is blistering this morning. At some point, we have to decide as a country that we just can\u2019t have this: We can\u2019t allow ourselves to remain silent as foaming-at-the-mouth protesters scream the vilest of epithets at members of Congress \u2014 epithets that The Times will not allow me to repeat here. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462053","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}