{"id":2052,"date":"2015-04-01T06:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/14\/politicos-roger-simon-racism-came-out-of-the-closet-at-million-vets-march\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T06:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:46:53","slug":"politicos-roger-simon-racism-came-out-of-the-closet-at-million-vetsmarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/2052","title":{"rendered":"Politico’s Roger Simon: ‘Racism came out of the closet’ at Million Vets&nbsp;March"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/stephenkruiser\/status\/389786637393461248\n<p>As Twitchy reported, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/13\/media-mostly-awol-from-million-vets-march-story-with-one-glaring-exception\/\">lefty MSM-ers were beside themselves<\/a> yesterday after seeing a photo of a Confederate flag-carrying doofus at the Million Vets March in D.C. And, just like the breathless Salon, Politico’s Roger Simon somehow managed to turn one protester into a seething, racist swarm:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/politicoroger\/status\/389461693186990080\n<p>“Protesters.”<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ExJon\/status\/389785939909689344\n<p>What? No. Of course not! He knows that one guy doesn’t represent all the veterans who showed up to protest the ridiculous Barrycades, right?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/politicoroger\/status\/389591108805619712\n<p>He knows that veterans aren’t marching for the restoration of the Confederacy … which is why he reiterated that the Confederate flag proves the protesters are racist:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/politicoroger\/status\/389778795202228224\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RichardGrenell\/status\/389521901501960193\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheCrazyOtt\/status\/389782414215880704\n<p>That would certainly explain lefties’ perpetual butthurt.<\/p>\n<p>Let’s take a look at Simon’s brand of logic:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jacobperry\/status\/389788198660210689\n<p>Well, Roger?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/yesnicksearcy\/status\/389787796719689729\n<p>It truly is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s all we really need to know:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/michi83\/status\/389788293161680896\n<p>One idiot.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p>Guess Simon wasn’t finished yet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/14\/douchetastic-roger-simon-says-america-would-be-saved-if-cruz-boehner-drowned\/\">Douchetastic: Roger Simon says America would be &lsquo;saved&rsquo; if Cruz, Boehner&nbsp;drowned<\/a><\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/14\/politicos-roger-simon-racism-came-out-of-the-closet-at-million-vets-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/14\/politicos-roger-simon-racism-came-out-of-the-closet-at-million-vets-march\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/stephenkruiser\/status\/389786637393461248 As Twitchy reported, lefty MSM-ers were beside themselves yesterday after seeing a photo of a Confederate flag-carrying doofus at the Million Vets March in D.C. And, just like the breathless Salon, Politico’s Roger Simon somehow managed to turn one protester into a seething, racist swarm: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/politicoroger\/status\/389461693186990080 “Protesters.” http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ExJon\/status\/389785939909689344 What? No. Of course not! He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/2052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politico’s Roger Simon: ‘Racism came out of the closet’ at Million Vets&nbsp;March<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/14278600148374-screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-10-43-48-am.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}