{"id":73399,"date":"2020-06-29T07:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/02\/12\/holmes-thomas\/"},"modified":"2020-06-29T07:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:12:29","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-msm-silent-after-ala-dem-calls-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/73399","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to see here! MSM silent after Ala. Dem calls Clarence Thomas ‘Uncle Tom’"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/433686333161484288\n

Dude. Dude:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DD_MarySell\/status\/433368741066194944\n

That happened yesterday in Alabama.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DD_MarySell\/status\/433370531711045633\n

OK, maybe we’re jumping the gun a little. Let’s give Holmes a chance to clarify his remarks:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TLockette_Star\/status\/433376144625131520\n

Oh.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TLockette_Star\/status\/433380197807570944\n

Yeah, that really doesn’t make him look any better.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheDaleJackson\/status\/433692126359330816\n

So, for those keeping score at home, a Democratic politician admitted to making up crap and smearing Justice Clarence Thomas as an Uncle Tom.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Heminator\/status\/433686466636828672\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/PeteWadeinIndy\/status\/433695395797925888\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/moelane\/status\/433687590341210112\n

That seems pretty newsworthy to us. Wouldn’t you agree?<\/p>\n

Damned racist repub… Wait, what? MT @tahDeetz<\/a>: Southern democrats railing against interracial marriage. <\/p>\n

What's old is new.\n#tcot<\/a> #p2<\/a>— Ken Brown (@K_P_Brown) February 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Harold_Benton\/status\/433688593064681472\n

Exactly.<\/p>\n

So why didn’t we hear about it right after it happened? Didn’t the MSM think it was worth covering?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Will_Antonin\/status\/433688345768890368\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheDaleJackson\/status\/433688812410396672\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NoahCRothman\/status\/433689026730930176\n

This one certainly wasn’t thoroughly vetted — by the public or the mainstream media.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheDaleJackson\/status\/433689409821876224\n

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.<\/p>

Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/02\/12\/holmes-thomas\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/433686333161484288 Dude. Dude: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DD_MarySell\/status\/433368741066194944 That happened yesterday in Alabama. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DD_MarySell\/status\/433370531711045633 OK, maybe we’re jumping the gun a little. Let’s give Holmes a chance to clarify his remarks: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TLockette_Star\/status\/433376144625131520 Oh. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TLockette_Star\/status\/433380197807570944 Yeah, that really doesn’t make him look any better. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheDaleJackson\/status\/433692126359330816 So, for those keeping score at home, a Democratic politician admitted to making up crap … Continue reading Nothing to see here! MSM silent after Ala. Dem calls Clarence Thomas ‘Uncle Tom’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73400,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[2052,43731,43724,43723,43729,43728,43727,43725,43726,43730],"class_list":["post-73399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-dem","tag-alvin-holmes","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-dale-jackson","tag-mary-sell","tag-rep-alvin-holmes","tag-rep-holmes","tag-tim-lockette","tag-uncle-tom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/15934024092184-screen-shot-2014-02-12-at-1-20-04-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399"}],"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=73399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}