{"id":4312,"date":"2010-07-23T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2010-07-23T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:08:18","slug":"using-race-to-smear-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/23\/using-race-to-smear-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Race to Smear Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"Eugene Robinson's Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/using_race_to_smear_obama_20100721\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Using Race to Smear Obama<\/strong><\/a>, Eugene Robinson posits his explanation for the Shirley Sherrod incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there\u2019s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African-Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Using Race to Smear Obama, Eugene Robinson posits his explanation for the Shirley Sherrod incident. After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there\u2019s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African-Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge [&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-4312","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\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}