{"id":21114,"date":"2015-06-29T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21114"},"modified":"2015-06-29T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T10:56:23","slug":"watch-larry-wilmore-had-the-best-2-minutes-on-the-confederate-flag-youll-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/29\/watch-larry-wilmore-had-the-best-2-minutes-on-the-confederate-flag-youll-see\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Larry Wilmore Had the Best 2 Minutes on the Confederate Flag You&#8217;ll See"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:3ae84901-b95f-4411-a17c-0f6e6fc23bf0\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/shows\/the-nightly-show\">The Nightly Show<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/shows\/the-nightly-show\/full-episodes\">The Nightly Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenightlyshow\">The Nightly Show on Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/shows\/the-nightly-show\/video-clips\">The Nightly Show Video Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I post this for the two nice young men I know who have decided to post an image of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.eckert.752\/posts\/10206754261398199\" target=\"_blank\">confederate battle symbol on their Facebook pages<\/a>. If you look at who replied to my comment, you can see exactly where the bigotry comes from.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine what my reaction would be if I were Jewish like me and saw people running around displaying a symbol that is particularly obnoxious to me.  You can imagine what that symbol might be.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case your imagination doesn&#8217;t extend as far as mine does, Huffington Post has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/25\/jon-stewart-confederate-flag_n_7660258.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Huffington Post article\">Jon Stewart Offers The South A New Symbol To Replace The Confederate Flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:efb64fb9-6882-4640-974c-fc605e04d96d\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/\">The Daily Show<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/full-episodes\/\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/videos\">Daily Show Video Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Unlike Comedy Central, HBO is blocking the viewing of <q><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/news\/watch-john-olivers-epic-takedown-of-the-confederate-flag-20150622\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rolling Stone article about the takedown\">John Oliver&#8217;s Epic Takedown of the Confederate Flag<\/a>.  The video clip as of this writing is labelled private.  I presume that is HBO&#8217;s doing.  <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> provided this quote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The Confederate flag is one of those symbols that should really only be seen on T-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/q><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nightly ShowGet More: The Nightly Show Full Episodes,The Nightly Show on Facebook,The Nightly Show Video Archive I post this for the two nice young men I know who have decided to post an image of the confederate battle symbol on their Facebook pages. If you look at who replied to my comment, you can [&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-21114","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\/21114","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=21114"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21122,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions\/21122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}