{"id":27448,"date":"2018-01-17T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27448"},"modified":"2018-01-17T00:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:29:21","slug":"shhole-story-just-keeps-roiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27448","title":{"rendered":"Sh**hole story just keeps roiling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The sh**hole story is the gift that just keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sat before a Senate committee today and couldn&#8217;t recall hearing Donald J. Trump use the term &#8220;sh**hole&#8221; to describe African nations, as well as Haiti and El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/369139-homeland-security-secretary-grilled-over-trump-comments\">Intelligence Committee <\/a>members grilled her on what she heard. They queried about what Sen. Dick Durbin said he heard, as he attended the White House meeting on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Then came a curious response to a question from Sen. Patrick Leahy.<\/p>\n<p>The president had said during the White House meeting that the United States needed to encourage more immigration from Norway, which Nielsen acknowledged during her testimony today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Norway is predominantly white, yes?&#8221; Leahy asked. Nielsen actually said &#8212; and I am not making this up &#8212; that she didn&#8217;t know about Norway&#8217;s predominant ethnic composition.<\/p>\n<p>I am left to wonder &#8230; huh, are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>The Homeland Security boss doesn&#8217;t know that a significant Scandinavian country comprises citizens who are, um, quite white? Many of them are blonde; they have blue eyes; they&#8217;re, um, nothing like the folks who come here from those &#8220;sh**hole countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This story won&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when the Trump administration keeps trotting Cabinet officers out who cannot respond to direct questions with equally direct answers.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sh**hole story is the gift that just keeps on giving. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sat before a Senate committee today and couldn&#8217;t recall hearing Donald J. Trump use the term &#8220;sh**hole&#8221; to describe African nations, as well as Haiti and El Salvador. Intelligence Committee members grilled her on what she heard. They queried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sh**hole story just keeps roiling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2158,2245,3688],"class_list":["post-27448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-homeland-security","tag-immigration","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27449,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27448\/revisions\/27449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}