{"id":7858,"date":"2015-01-14T03:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2015-01-14T03:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:30:16","slug":"apology-accepted-congressman-now-promise-never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7858","title":{"rendered":"Apology accepted, congressman; now promise: never again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Congressman Randy Weber has done the right thing by apologizing for a hideous reference to Adolf Hitler while criticizing President Obama’s absence from the unity rally in Paris.<\/p>\n

The Republican who represents Southeast Texas in the House of Representatives had sent out a tweet that noted Hitler had gone to Paris in 1940 “for the wrong reasons” but Obama couldn’t go this past week “for the right reasons.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/congressman-randy-weber-apologizes-tweet-comparing-president-obama\/story?id=28200320<\/p>\n

It was a ghastly reference that has no bearing on anything other than to morph the president of the United States into some kind of comparison with the 20th century’s most despicable despot.<\/p>\n

Oh, but Weber said that wasn’t his intention. He intended only to use the Hitler reference to illustrate the evil that lurks in today’s world.<\/p>\n

OK, whatever.<\/p>\n

I’m glad Weber apologized to “all those offended by my tweet.” Yep. That would be me, among many others.<\/p>\n

His explanation of what he intended, though, seems a bit dubious.<\/p>\n

It’s my hope that he and others who are inclined to toss Adolf Hitler’s name around to make some political points will cease doing so … forever.<\/p>\n\n

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Congressman Randy Weber has done the right thing by apologizing for a hideous reference to Adolf Hitler while criticizing President Obama’s absence from the unity rally in Paris. The Republican who represents Southeast Texas in the House of Representatives had sent out a tweet that noted Hitler had gone to Paris in 1940 “for the … Continue reading Apology accepted, congressman; now promise: never again<\/span> →<\/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":[12,13,14],"tags":[152,540,2179,3838,4531,4932,5045],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-barack-obama","tag-house-gop","tag-randy-weber","tag-tea-party","tag-twitter","tag-us-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","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=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}