{"id":16083,"date":"2012-08-09T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2012-08-09T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:24:38","slug":"tea-party-jokes-about-founding-fathers-viciously-beating-pres-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16083","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Jokes About Founding Fathers Viciously Beating Pres. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northeast Pennsylvania Spirit of 1776, a branch of the Tea Party, has sent out an email blast with <strong>Thomas Jefferson<\/strong>, <strong>George Washington<\/strong>, <strong>Patrick Henry<\/strong> and others, taking turns assaulting<strong> President Barack Obama<\/strong>, reports<em> Think Progress<\/em>. According to these self-proclaimed American patriots, it\u2019s just for kicks and giggles.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Tea Party confirmed to <em>Think Progress<\/em> that the organization sent out the email because it was funny, and more importantly, because <strong>President Obama<\/strong> \u201cmay be a Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on \u201c<em>Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0<\/em>,\u201d Tea Party leader<strong> Mark William<\/strong>s claimed that <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> was \u201cRacist-in-Chief\u201d and an \u201cIndonesian Muslim turned welfare thug,\u201d who did not have America\u2019s best interest at heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeast Pennsylvania Spirit of 1776, a branch of the Tea Party, has sent out an email blast with Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry and others, taking turns assaulting President Barack Obama, reports Think Progress. According to these self-proclaimed American patriots, it\u2019s just for kicks and giggles. A member of the Tea Party confirmed to [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","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=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}