{"id":278,"date":"2016-06-10T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:54:16","slug":"the-gop-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"The GOP &#8220;Script&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitch_McConnell\">Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell<\/a> wants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNuyCCos2Jo\">get on script<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 By this, he of course means The Donald should quit <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/06\/07\/donald-trump-racism-quotes\/\">saying the quiet parts out loud<\/a> and get back to using the <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/six-case-studies-in-do\u2026\">dog whistle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell and other conservatives don\u2019t mind racism.\u00a0 They happily appeal to racism and bigotry when they can use it to distract voters from the real source of their economic woes.\u00a0 They just don\u2019t want to change the <em>official<\/em> Republican Party brand from \u201cfamily values for some families\u201d to racism and bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Wait.\u00a0 Maybe they already have that brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell wants Donald Trump to \u201cget on script.\u201d\u00a0 By this, he of course means The Donald should quit saying the quiet parts out loud and get back to using the dog whistle. McConnell and other conservatives don\u2019t mind racism.\u00a0 They happily appeal to racism and bigotry when they can use it to [&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":[67,69,70,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-presidential-race","category-2016-republican-nomination","category-donald-trump","category-racism-and-bigotry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}