{"id":662,"date":"2013-01-22T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/22\/playing-the-race-card"},"modified":"2013-01-22T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:07:00","slug":"playing-the-race-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Playing the race card"},"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>Some folks on the right have taken to accusing those on the left of playing the race card too frequently to explain the ideological chasm that exists among Americans in these contentious times.<\/p>\n<p>But that criticism occasionally ignores an unmistakable truth, which is that righties have their own racial burdens to bear.<\/p>\n<p>Witness the recent rant by Fox News Channel host Bill O\u2019Reilly, one of the premier right-wing loudmouths on TV. He accuses President Obama of wanting to take down Republicans because, according to Bill O, he thinks the GOP is the party of \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll stand aside for now. Take a look at this link. I wonder what others think of O\u2019Reilly\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/278435-oreilly-obama-sees-gop-as-purveyors-of-white-privilege\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/278435-oreilly-obama-sees-gop-as-purveyors-of-white-privilege\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/278435-oreilly-obama-sees-gop-as-purveyors-of-white-privilege<\/a><\/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>Some folks on the right have taken to accusing those on the left of playing the race card too frequently to explain the ideological chasm that exists among Americans in these contentious times. But that criticism occasionally ignores an unmistakable truth, which is that righties have their own racial burdens to bear. Witness the recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing the race card<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}