{"id":120256,"date":"2019-04-05T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=120256"},"modified":"2019-04-05T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:50:14","slug":"political-bolsheviks-like-this-have-no-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=120256","title":{"rendered":"Political Bolsheviks Like This Have NO Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ex-Clinton aide faces backlash for mocking McConnell&#8217;s fall, refuses to apologize<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6010779914001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><br \/>\n<strong>Democrat accuses Senator McConnell of politicizing anti-Semitism issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A former aide to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/bill-and-hillary-clinton-have-been-frozen-out-of-the-democratic-party-kennedy#&amp;_intcmp=hp1bt3,hp1bt\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u00a0is facing backlash for mocking Senate Majority Leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/senate-republicans-push-procedural-change-to-speed-confirmation-of-trump-judicial-picks\">Mitch McConnell<\/a>\u00a0over video of the Kentucky Republican falling down, though\u00a0others on social media pointed\u00a0out that McConnell had survived a bout of polio as a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Adam Parkhomenko, a Democratic strategist who served in Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, shared a video on Wednesday of McConnell falling while stepping onstage at a campaign event.<\/p>\n<p>The video included the theme music from \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm,\u201d which is a commonly used meme on social media. He shared it again on Thursday in hopes of reaching one million views.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday I posted this new found footage of Mitch McConnell standing up for America. 368,000 views overnight. Mitch McConnell does not want you to let this video get up to 1,000,000 views. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PZTGBGOrjt\">pic.twitter.com\/PZTGBGOrjt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamParkhomenko\/status\/1113828136821645318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Many pointed out on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nataliewsj\/status\/1113884030934683648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media<\/a>\u00a0that McConnell had polio as a child and that paralysis from the disease has had a lasting effect on the lawmaker. Others slammed Parkhomenko for his \u201cdisgusting\u201d tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mitch McConnell had polio as a child. He has difficulty with stairs at times. <\/p>\n<p>Policy critique is fair, ideally mocking a disability should stay far away from the dialogue <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fttwn2Zk1b\">https:\/\/t.co\/Fttwn2Zk1b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Natalie Andrews (@natalieandrews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natalieandrews\/status\/1113884030934683648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ex-clinton-aide-faces-backlash-for-mocking-mcconnells-fall-refuses-to-apologize\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ex-clinton-aide-faces-backlash-for-mocking-mcconnells-fall-refuses-to-apologize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Clinton aide faces backlash for mocking McConnell&#8217;s fall, refuses to apologize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}