{"id":530146,"date":"2010-04-16T17:18:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011627412_slursoncapitolhill.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:18:22","slug":"slurs-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530146","title":{"rendered":"Slurs on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The truth is not \u2018elusive\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consider The Seattle Times headline for The Associated Press article on claims that the N-epithet was hurled: \u201cDid spit, slurs fly on the Hill? The truth has been elusive\u201d [CloseUp, April 14].<\/p>\n<p>One of the congressmen was the hero John Lewis, whose courage and integrity are beyond dispute; the claims were backed up by another congressmen who wasn\u2019t a target; a reporter and a congressional aide, who saw the three as they entered the Capitol, described them as trembling, agitated and wanting documentation; and the claim that there is anything to dispute is based on an irrelevant video and sponsored by Andrew Breitbart, who has been exposed as a liar in his representations about the Acorn videos.<\/p>\n<p>Would The Times cast the headline as a question, and describe the truth as \u201celusive,\u201d if the testimony of four policemen was disputed by someone with a criminal record who wasn\u2019t even there when an event occurred?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 David Lovell, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth is not \u2018elusive\u2019 Consider The Seattle Times headline for The Associated Press article on claims that the N-epithet was hurled: \u201cDid spit, slurs fly on the Hill? The truth has been elusive\u201d [CloseUp, April 14]. One of the congressmen was the hero John Lewis, whose courage and integrity are beyond dispute; the claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530146","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}