{"id":21095,"date":"2015-06-27T09:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21095"},"modified":"2015-06-27T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:42:33","slug":"momentum-turns-against-the-confederate-battle-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/27\/momentum-turns-against-the-confederate-battle-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum turns against the Confederate battle flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the amazing interview shown below.  This is a segment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all-in\/watch\/momentum-turns-against-the-confederate-flag-470267459890\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Full episode of the show\">All In with Chris Hayes 6\/23\/15<\/a> where you can see what came before this interview at 12:10 into the episode.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<div style=\"width: 426px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-21095-1\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11643781_510016172496746_1446221892_n.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11643781_510016172496746_1446221892_n.mp4\">http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11643781_510016172496746_1446221892_n.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><em>Crooks and Liars<\/em> has an article <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/06\/jack-hunter-former-southern-avenger\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Crooks and Liars article\">Jack Hunter, Former &#8216;Southern Avenger&#8217;, Repudiates Former Hateful Stance<\/a> that quotes some of the article mentioned in the interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSpeaking to Chris Hayes Tuesday, Hunter repeated these same points and went on to discuss his revulsion at the events in McKinney, Texas, where a policeman manhandled a 14-year old girl. From his column:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    A 14-year-old black girl attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas, had been manhandled and thrown to the ground by a police officer. The girl had done nothing except talk. She was just standing there with other teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>    It was revolting to watch. I asked others to imagine it was their daughter.\n        <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Beast<\/em> article mentioned in the interview and the <em>Crooks and Liars<\/em> article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/22\/the-southern-avenger-repents-i-was-wrong-about-the-confederate-flag.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Daily Beast article\">The \u2018Southern Avenger\u2019 Repents: I Was Wrong About the Confederate Flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tangelia Sinclair-Moore for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tangelia.sinclairmoore\/posts\/10204875920673269\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tangelia's Facebook post\">the post on her Facebook page<\/a>.  The video lived up to her promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the amazing interview shown below. This is a segment of All In with Chris Hayes 6\/23\/15 where you can see what came before this interview at 12:10 into the episode. Crooks and Liars has an article Jack Hunter, Former &#8216;Southern Avenger&#8217;, Repudiates Former Hateful Stance that quotes some of the article mentioned in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21095"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21103,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21095\/revisions\/21103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}