{"id":4980,"date":"2010-04-16T21:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/2010\/04\/those-who-report-inaccurately-about-tea-must-be-drinking-something-else\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:54:33","slug":"those-who-report-inaccurately-about-tea-must-be-drinking-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/2010\/04\/16\/those-who-report-inaccurately-about-tea-must-be-drinking-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Report Inaccurately About Tea, Must Be Drinking Something Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by <strong><em>San Diego Rostra,<\/em><\/strong> April 16, 2010<\/p>\n<p>I had a chance to attend my second Tea Party yesterday, at the  Oceanside pier amphitheater, April 15th, 2010, Tax Tea Party Day.\u00a0 This  time I was able to take on a more active role.\u00a0 Rick Amato did a  terrific job emceeing the event on short notice, while I hosted his show  from a KCBQ booth in the plaza,\u00a0 doing a prerecording for a program  that aired later in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>I was grateful for this opportunity, because I constantly hear so  many downright lies about Tea Parties from people who have obviously  never been to one.\u00a0 In my opening comments,\u00a0 I mentioned the variety of  people groups in attendance, not a bunch of all white, racist  homophobes.\u00a0 Later, when Dr. John Eastman\u00a0 took the stage, informing the  audience of his close tie with Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas,  the crowd of about 3000 cheered with fantastic enthusiasm. I went out of  my way to mention this cheer a few minutes later over the air. After  all, this is supposedly a collection of racist folk, who object to  President Obama, not because of his tax and spend redistribution  policies, but only because they \u201ccannot handle an African American  President.\u201d Let me share with my readers what I shared with the radio  audience: \u201cThe people at this Tea Party can think of many  African-Americans who would have made good presidents. It\u2019s just that  Obama is not one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by San Diego Rostra, April 16, 2010 I had a chance to attend my second Tea Party yesterday, at the Oceanside pier amphitheater, April 15th, 2010, Tax Tea Party Day.\u00a0 This time I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutpolitics","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}