{"id":566621,"date":"2010-05-17T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=25254"},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:18:29","slug":"war-on-science-alabama%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ctrue-republican%e2%80%9d-tv-ad-mocks-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566621","title":{"rendered":"War on science:  Alabama\u2019s \u201cTrue Republican\u201d TV ad mocks evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In the current Alabama gubernatorial primary race, there&#8217;s some serious  mudslinging and general ugliness going on. True Republican PAC recently  produced this campaign ad attacking conservative candidate Bradley Byrne  for not being conservative enough. His crime? Bradley Byrne might  believe in evolution!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Technorati <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/videos\/article\/alabama-true-republican-tv-campaign-mocks\/\">reports the stor<\/a>y and posts the &#8220;True Republican&#8221; TV ad:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25254\"><\/span><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iJG-7s1e5eM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iJG-7s1e5eM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Not to fear.\u00a0\u00a0 GOP gubernatorial candidate Byrne quickly <a href=\"http:\/\/byrneforalabama.com\/news\/byrne_says_untrue_attack_about_his_faith_is_an_affront_to_all_believers\/\">defended<\/a> his beliefs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a Christian and as a public servant, I have never wavered in my  belief that this world and everything in it is a masterpiece created by  the hands of God. As a member of the Alabama Board of Education, the  record clearly shows that I fought to ensure the teaching of creationism  in our school text books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad he had the courage of his convictions to set the record straight here.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to The Dark Ages return:  Texas  Board of Education rewrites the Enlightenment\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/14\/global-warming-dark-ages-return-texas-board-of-education-rewires-enlightenment\/\">The Dark Ages return:   Texas Board of Education rewrites the Enlightenment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to How ultraconservative Texans are rewriting  your kids\u2019 textbooks and bringing global-warming denial into science  class\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/01\/04\/how-ultraconservative-texans-are-rewriting-your-kids-textbooks-and-bringing-global-warming-denial-into-science-class\/\">How  ultraconservative Texans are rewriting your kids\u2019 textbooks and  bringing global-warming denial into science class<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to South Dakota legislators tell  schools to teach \u2018astrological\u2019 explanation for global warming\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/25\/south-dakota-legislators-tell-schools-to-teach-%e2%80%98astrological%e2%80%99-explanation-for-global-warming\/\">South  Dakota legislators tell schools to teach \u2018astrological\u2019 explanation for  global warming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to The Heritage Foundation loses  its grip on reality, calls science \u2018magic\u2019\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/05\/heritage-foundation-loses-its-grip-on-reality-calls-science-%e2%80%98magic%e2%80%99\/\">The Heritage Foundation  loses its grip on reality, calls science \u2018magic\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current Alabama gubernatorial primary race, there&#8217;s some serious mudslinging and general ugliness going on. True Republican PAC recently produced this campaign ad attacking conservative candidate Bradley Byrne for not being conservative enough. His crime? Bradley Byrne might believe in evolution! Technorati reports the story and posts the &#8220;True Republican&#8221; TV ad: Not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566621","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}