{"id":3063,"date":"2010-09-18T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2010-09-18T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:29:06","slug":"al-damato-calling-bullsht-over-racist-characterizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/18\/al-damato-calling-bullsht-over-racist-characterizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Al D&#8217;Amato Calling Bullsh*t Over Racist Characterizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6kHntD9ehbM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>{Hat tip:: LinnyQat} Republican strategist Jack Burkman and former NY Senator Al D&#8217;Amato, a Republican, went toe-to-toe on Fox Business. Burkman was rehashing arguments about US post office waste, but has a twist. He went after &#8220;unskilled Nigerians and Ethiopians&#8221; that he claims the US is &#8220;importing&#8221; and the massive unions protecting them. Burkman also claims that the post offices are used by politicians to plaster their names on them.<\/p>\n<p>While D&#8217;Amato is actually for privatization of the post office {and public-private partnerships}, he berated Burkman for bringing national origin into the argument, as opposed to focusing on skills and organizational waste. D&#8217;Amato also said that Burkman hurts the cause with his remarks. Another panelist, attorney Tamara Holder, also in favour of privatization, found Burkman&#8217;s statements to be out-of-line and racist.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that some libertarians or those with libertarian leanings are having less patience for wrapping economic arguments with jingoistic statements that are cheap ploys at stirring up emotions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitterversion:: <\/strong>[blog]\u00a0Fmr NY Senator Al D&#8217;Amato [R] goes after GOP strategist Jack Burkman for racist characterizations of postal workers. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThickCulture\">@ThickCulture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Prof_K\">@Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Hat tip:: LinnyQat} Republican strategist Jack Burkman and former NY Senator Al D&#8217;Amato, a Republican, went toe-to-toe on Fox Business. Burkman was rehashing arguments about US post office waste, but has a twist. He went after &#8220;unskilled Nigerians and Ethiopians&#8221; that he claims the US is &#8220;importing&#8221; and the massive unions protecting them. Burkman also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8999,8998,89,9000,14,9001],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-damato","tag-fox-business","tag-immigration","tag-jack-burkman","tag-race","tag-tamara-holder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}