{"id":101635,"date":"2016-07-19T03:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101635"},"modified":"2016-07-19T03:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:25:18","slug":"media-paints-steve-king-as-racist-for-defending-western-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101635","title":{"rendered":"Media Paints Steve King As Racist For Defending Western Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vox Day tweets: &#8220;It is glorious how Progressives, Blacks, and Jews are belatedly learning that calling whites names no longer dissuades them from anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is no surprise that the media hates Melania Trump. Even at her age, she is hotter than every single female journalist covering her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/07\/18\/media-paints-steve-king-as-racist-for-defending-western-civilization-video\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Social media exploded Monday night after Rep. Steve King, speaking of western civilization, asked: \u201cWhere did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s comments came during an appearance on MSNBC, when Esquire Magazine\u2019s Charles Pierce expressed joy over the fact that \u201cold white people\u201d would play less of a role in American politics in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re really optimistic, you can say that this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican party\u2019s attention, its platform, its public face,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cThat hall is wired by loud, unhappy, dissatisfied white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2018old white people\u2019 business does get a little tired, Charlie,\u201d King replied. \u201cI\u2019d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you\u2019re talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox Day tweets: &#8220;It is glorious how Progressives, Blacks, and Jews are belatedly learning that calling whites names no longer dissuades them from anything.&#8221; &#8220;It is no surprise that the media hates Melania Trump. Even at her age, she is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101638,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635\/revisions\/101638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}