{"id":1371,"date":"2008-02-06T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/06\/huckabee-you-can-take-our-racist-flag-and-shove-it\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:05:27","slug":"huckabee-you-can-take-our-racist-flag-and-shove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/huckabee-you-can-take-our-racist-flag-and-shove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee: You can take our racist flag and shove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>South Carolina people know true conservatism when they see it.You don&#8217;t like people outside the state telling you how you ought to raise your kids, you don&#8217;t like people from outside the state telling you what to do with the flag &#8230; In fact, if somebody came down to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we&#8217;d tell&#8217;em where to put the pole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Whether or not a flag, in this case the confederate flag, is a racist symbol is not necessarily something that a small group of people can decide.  If a plurality or majority see it that way, then those waving the flag around and pretending it is simply a matter of state-level patriotism, this does not alter this symbol&#8217;s meaning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"> <ins style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-player\"><script src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.vidavee.com\/com\/js_secplayer.php?p=0&#038;i=6137&#038;a=&#038;w=400&#038;h=&#038;x=b2e066006d&#038;t=&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fembeds.blogs.foxnews.com%2F2008%2F01%2F18%2Fhuckabee-on-sc-flag-in-ark-wed-tellem-where-to-put-the-poll%2F\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>Huckabee obviously understands this, as we can see his boyish &#8220;oh crap I screwed up&#8221; demeanor in this video:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-player\"><script src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.vidavee.com\/com\/js_secplayer.php?p=0&#038;i=6140&#038;a=&#038;w=400&#038;h=&#038;x=52f89755a2&#038;t=&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fembeds.blogs.foxnews.com%2F2008%2F01%2F18%2Fhuckabee-on-sc-flag-in-ark-wed-tellem-where-to-put-the-poll%2F\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/embeds.blogs.foxnews.com\/2008\/01\/18\/huckabee-on-sc-flag-in-ark-wed-tellem-where-to-put-the-poll\/\">[source]<\/a>Meanwhile, there are reports that God is pissed at Huckabee, for being a racist, and has responded, after consulting with Pat Robertson, to his win in Arkansas by killing more than 30 voters in the Ozark state.  Story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080206\/ap_on_re_us\/severe_weather\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina people know true conservatism when they see it.You don&#8217;t like people outside the state telling you how you ought to raise your kids, you don&#8217;t like people from outside the state telling you what to do with the flag &#8230; In fact, if somebody came down to Arkansas and told us what to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/huckabee-you-can-take-our-racist-flag-and-shove-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huckabee: You can take our racist flag and shove it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-m7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}