{"id":2547,"date":"2010-10-29T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2010-10-29T00:39:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:39:29","slug":"the-us-tea-party-the-shocking-crazy-mixed-up-truth-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-us-tea-party-the-shocking-crazy-mixed-up-truth-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Tea Party &#8211; the shocking, crazy, mixed-up truth [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tea-party-usa.jpg\" alt=\"The US Tea Party - the shocking truth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lordy. This is terrifying stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for some example quotes from Tea Party members:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Divorce and social security are some of this country&#8217;s &#8220;wicked ways&#8221;<\/em> says\u00a0<strong>Sharron Angle<\/strong>, Nevada, who has gone on record saying that she would deny an abortion to a girl who had been raped by her own father.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is no problem that abortion can&#8217;t make worse. I have good friends who were the product of rape&#8221;<\/em> insists\u00a0<strong>Glen Urquhart<\/strong>, Delaware, who thinks that anyone who supports the separation of church and state must be a &#8220;Nazi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the clip below and expect to be baffled, shocked and quite probably depressed by the terrifying nonsense trotted out by some near-insane Tea Party candidates:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"msnbc65a00\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"338\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=39880604&amp;width=580&amp;height=338\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"msnbc65a00\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"launch=39880604&amp;width=580&amp;height=338\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39875964\/ns\/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lordy. This is terrifying stuff. Read on for some example quotes from Tea Party members:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193],"tags":[153,349,192],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","tag-politics","tag-tea-party","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tea-party-usa.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-F5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}