{"id":1281,"date":"2009-05-27T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2009-05-27T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T00:24:38","slug":"now-republicans-are-an-oppressed-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Now Republicans Are An Oppressed Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t need much accompanying commentary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Per Rush Limbaugh:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> &#8220;If ever a civil rights movement was needed in America, it is for the Republican Party. If ever we needed to start marching for freedom and constitutional rights, it&#8217;s for the Republican Party. The Republican Party is today&#8217;s oppressed minority, and it know how to behave as one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Per Karl Rove<\/strong> (speaking about George W. Bush):<span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> &#8220;And let&#8217;s be honest, a certain part of the country doesn&#8217;t like people who speak with an accent.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&#038;vid=\/video\/bestoftv\/2009\/05\/27\/nr.carville.rove.fight.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\">CNN Video<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I guess Rove never heard of Bill Clinton or Lyndon Johnson. And this on the heels of Obama&#8217;s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. What a couple of wankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t need much accompanying commentary: Per Rush Limbaugh: &#8220;If ever a civil rights movement was needed in America, it is for the Republican Party. If ever we needed to start marching for freedom and constitutional rights, it&#8217;s for the Republican Party. The Republican Party is today&#8217;s oppressed minority, and it know how to behave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1,15,16],"tags":[167,45,71],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","category-wankery","tag-george-w-bush","tag-karl-rove","tag-rush-limbaugh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-kF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6008,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6008","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":0},"title":"Merry Christmas Karl Rove, From Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/24\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In the spirit of the holiday season, Fox News has given a Christmas gift to former George W. 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