{"id":493538,"date":"2010-03-31T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81065"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:52:32","slug":"dale-robertson-skedaddles-away-from-racist-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/493538","title":{"rendered":"Dale Robertson Skedaddles Away From Racist Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Christopher interviews Dale Robertson<\/a>, the Tea Party activist who became infamous after I published a photo of him holding a sign with the phrase “Taxpayer = NIGGAR.” Robertson’s unhappy, understandably, with his new status as an activist who’s pilloried every time he’s quoted.<\/p>\n

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The photograph in question, available in hi-res here<\/a>, depicts Robertson holding a sign that says \u201cCongress=Slaveowner, Taxpayer=N***ar.\u201d The misspelled n-word appears to have been duct-taped over the original sign, which Robertson claims read \u201cCongress=Slaveowner, Taxpayer=Slave.\u201d He says he never taped anything over the original sign, nor did anyone else. He says the photo must be a fake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How convenient!<\/span> In reality, a source in the Tea Party movement who was worried about Robertson’s bid for mainstream cred — his TeaParty.org site was promoted in an email from the fairly mainstream ResistNet — emailed me a very high-res version of the photo. I checked with people who were at the 2009 Tea Party where Robertson held the sign, who told me he was encouraged to leave — there was no tolerance for his sign. I checked in with Robertson’s publicist on Jan. 4, did not get a response, then, later that day, ran the photo<\/a>. Robertson has had several months to correct the record, but I’ve never heard from him, nor have I heard anyone else contradict the story of him at the Tea Party event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tommy Christopher interviews Dale Robertson, the Tea Party activist who became infamous after I published a photo of him holding a sign with the phrase “Taxpayer = NIGGAR.” Robertson’s unhappy, understandably, with his new status as an activist who’s pilloried every time he’s quoted. The photograph in question, available in hi-res here, depicts Robertson holding […]<\/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-493538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493538","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=493538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}