{"id":18098,"date":"2010-03-21T08:13:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T13:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2010-03-21T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T14:50:10","slug":"hastings-there-are-no-rules-here-we-make-them-up-as-we-go-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18098","title":{"rendered":"Hastings: There Are No Rules Here &#8230; We Make Them Up As We Go Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ponsdorf sent me this link when I got home last night about the charge that some of the folks at the Code Red rally yesterday called disparaging names at some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/20\/health-care-protesters-hurl-verbal-epithets-african-american-lawmakers\/\">Black Congressmen and Barney Franks<\/a>. Like I told ponsdorf, do I think some of the people on the right would call names at Congressmen? Absolutely. Do I think that Rangel and Lewis would make this up? Definitely. So everyone will take what they want from this story. I just think it&#8217;s damn funny that no media cameras caught it.<\/p>\n<p>But if anyone is wondering why the hate was pouring out on the Hill yesterday, they only need to watch this video of Alcee Hastings telling us how him and the Democrats will just make up stuff to get healthcare through Congress.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CbHTJSu_2Lk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Added: As far as John Lewis&#8217; claims, here&#8217;s a video of him walking by the protesters who were supposed to be calling him names (found at <a href=\"http:\/\/thedanashow.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/20\/video-debunks-lib-accusations-that-slurs-were-shouted\/\">Dana&#8217;s Show<\/a>). Yeah, I don&#8217;t hear it;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TPoJGNhWB-s&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/03\/20\/code-red-gun\/\">Think Progress<\/a> is trying to scare the leftists because of a sign that threatens gun violence.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gunshot.jpg\" alt=\"Code Red Gun Threat\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ponsdorf sent me this link when I got home last night about the charge that some of the folks at the Code Red rally yesterday called disparaging names at some Black Congressmen and Barney Franks. Like I told ponsdorf, do I think some of the people on the right would call names at Congressmen? Absolutely. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-liberals-suck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-4HU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}