{"id":10153,"date":"2011-09-26T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2011-09-26T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:24:08","slug":"morgan-freeman-tea-party-is-racist-out-to-get-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10153","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman: Tea Party Is &#8216;Racist&#8217;, Out To Get Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Morgan Freeman<\/strong> laid down the chips on the Tea Party in a new interview with <strong>Piers Morgan<\/strong> that is due to air Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-winning actor sat down with the British TV host and, amongst other things, discussed his belief that the right wing Tea Party&#8217;s anti-<strong>Obama<\/strong> stance is rooted in racism.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by <strong>Morgan<\/strong> whether <strong>Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> presidency has made racism in the United States better or worse, <strong>Freeman<\/strong>, who once played apartheid-defying South African president Nelson<strong> Mandela<\/strong>, frankly stated that his time in office has made it worse, as he has become a target of the right&#8217;s aggression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that <strong>Obama<\/strong> only serves one term,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;What&#8217;s, what does that, what underlines that? &#8216;Screw the country. We&#8217;re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we&#8217;re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Freeman laid down the chips on the Tea Party in a new interview with Piers Morgan that is due to air Friday night. The Oscar-winning actor sat down with the British TV host and, amongst other things, discussed his belief that the right wing Tea Party&#8217;s anti-Obama stance is rooted in racism. When asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}