{"id":2898,"date":"2009-10-27T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-well-wtf\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T02:30:00","slug":"this-weeks-well-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-well-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&rsquo;s &ldquo;Well, WTF?!&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Since Oct. 20, the Republican National Committee\u2019s Facebook page has had a picture of President Obama with a caption reading \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2009\/10\/gops-facebook-photos\/\">Miscegenation is a crime against American values<\/a>. Repeal Loving v. Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[mjh: That\u2019s right: repeal the ruling that allowed an interracial couple to marry. Rather reminiscent of the judge down south who recently said he wouldn\u2019t marry an interracial couple because it\u2019s bad for the kids. Tell it to Obama, jackass.]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Raw Story notes, the RNC finally <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2009\/10\/gops-facebook-photos\/\">took the photo down today<\/a>, after readers at Democratic Underground first began discussing it on Sunday. While it\u2019s likely that the RNC \u201cwasn\u2019t aware the racist photo was on their page and it wasn\u2019t produced or posted by anyone at the RNC,\u201d the group had attacked MoveOn.org for a similar incident in 2004. As Chris Harris at Media Matters Action Network notes, <strong>when \u201ca web user posted a self-produced web video that compared President Bush to Hitler as part of a MoveOn.org video contest, the RNC acted <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamattersaction.org\/blog\/200910260003\"><strong>as if the video had been produced by MoveOn itself<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u201d<\/strong> According to the National Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis [Bush as Hitler] is the worst and most vile form of political hate speech,\u201d Republican National Committee spokesman Ed Gillespie proclaimed. \u201cMoveOn.org should apologize.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boyd did just that, expressing \u201cdeep regret\u201d that the ads made it through MoveOn\u2019s filtering process, and promising to scrutinize such material in the future.<\/strong> Pariser emphasized that MoveOn had not produced the ads, not aired them, not endorsed them in the voting, and had removed them from the Web site \u2013adding that the RNC had put them on its Web site to score points. Still, the damage had been done. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Will the RNC now issue a public apology?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/26\/rnc-racist-facebook\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Will the RNC apologize for racist Facebook photo?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Oct. 20, the Republican National Committee\u2019s Facebook page has had a picture of President Obama with a caption reading \u201cMiscegenation is a crime against American values. Repeal Loving v. Virginia.\u201d [mjh: That\u2019s right: repeal the ruling that allowed an interracial couple to marry. Rather reminiscent of the judge down south who recently said he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-well-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week&rsquo;s &ldquo;Well, WTF?!&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}