Mitt Romney\u2019s misfire on the national anthem<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe former Massachusetts governor got his facts \u2014 and his history \u2014 very wrong when he made some claims about the national anthem.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The weird thing about Mitt's mistatements about the origins of, and American uniqueness in, putting hand over heart during the national anthem is that it's relatively trivial on the face of it, but shows such an annoying disregard for facts (or for research). It's weak tea jingoism … which, now that I think about it, … Continue reading “Mitt, the National Anthem, and American Exceptionalism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,108],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-history","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135401,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/nfl-looks-way-side-step-anthem-protest-issue.html","url_meta":{"origin":26110,"position":0},"title":"NFL looks for a way to side-step the anthem protest issue","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Nov-17 7:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Prior to 2009, you didn't see all the players at NFL games standing the sidelines during the national anthem for prime time games. 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