{"id":959,"date":"2008-10-28T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:10:41","slug":"one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"One of these things is not like the other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_10\/015400.php\">Washington Monthly<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Some skinheads plotted to assassinate Obama and kill some 102 African-American children.&nbsp; As they were from Tennessee, the Tennessee Republican Party felt compelled to respond.&nbsp; They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tngop.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/27\/hatred-knows-no-party\/\">said<\/a>:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Hate is not a political party, policy statement, agenda or ideology &#8212; it is a pure evil that no place in civil society,&quot; said Robin Smith, Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. &quot;Whether it is neo-Nazi skinheads <strong>plotting a racist shooting spree targeting Sen. Obama<\/strong>, or West Hollywood liberals hanging Gov. Sarah Palin in <strong>effigy<\/strong> and calling it &#39;art,&#39; or <strong>unknown anarchists<\/strong> tossing bricks through the windows of a county Republican headquarters in Murfreesboro, Americans of all political views should be outraged.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A tasteless effigy and anonymous (who said they&#39;re anarchists?) bricks don&#39;t remotely equal political assassination and racially motivated mass murder.&nbsp; Nice attempted red herring however. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Washington Monthly. Some skinheads plotted to assassinate Obama and kill some 102 African-American children.&nbsp; As they were from Tennessee, the Tennessee Republican Party felt compelled to respond.&nbsp; They said:&nbsp; &quot;Hate is not a political party, policy statement, agenda or ideology &#8212; it is a pure evil that no place in civil society,&quot; said Robin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One of these things is not like the other<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,141],"tags":[368,369],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","category-red-herring","category-specious-comparisons","tag-obama-assassination-plot","tag-tennessee-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}