{"id":12604,"date":"2012-01-09T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:04:12","slug":"artur-davis-calls-foul-on-racism-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12604\/artur-davis-calls-foul-on-racism-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Artur Davis Calls Foul on Racism Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, a moderate Democrat, has been on a roll of late in exploding liberal shibboleths, from the false claim that voter ID laws are racist ploys (and that vote fraud is nonexistent) to the idea that Rick Santorum can&#8217;t appeal to the political center. His latest, at NRO, takes on a recent, scurrilous column by the NY Times&#8217; Andy Rosenthal, claiming that most opposition to Barack Obama is race-based. Davis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/287536\/rosenthal-s-amnesia-artur-davis\" target=\"_blank\">blows away Rosenthal&#8217;s allegation, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be sure, some of Obama\u2019s enemies have depicted him in dumb,  outrageous ways. Their bad behavior ought to be denounced, but accuracy  demands that this be done in the context of rejecting the personal  demonization that is par for the course in partisan politics. Rosenthal  does civility a disservice by deploying it narrowly, to make a smear of  his own, and by falsely suggesting that the toxicity in politics is a  right-wing product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Davis, who was the first member of Congress outside of Obama&#8217;s adopted home state of Illinois to endorse Obama for president, is no closet conservative. When conservatives stray from decency or honesty, I expect him to call us on it with the same verve that he has been calling &#8220;foul&#8221; on the left in recent months &#8212; and we will certainly deserve it, because Davis doesn&#8217;t take cheap shots. There is, for instance, racism that remains on the right, and we all have an obligation to call it out when we see it. But for the charge to carry weight, it should not be diluted by false accusations that deprive the charge of its power and weight. Kudos to Davis for trying to keep the conversation honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, a moderate Democrat, has been on a roll of late in exploding liberal shibboleths, from the false claim that voter ID laws are racist ploys (and that vote fraud is nonexistent) to the idea that Rick Santorum can&#8217;t appeal to the political center. His latest, at NRO, takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3148,3092,3278,2795],"class_list":["post-12604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-artur-davis","tag-racism","tag-rosenthal","tag-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12605,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions\/12605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}