{"id":2704,"date":"2004-07-26T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T09:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/27\/gagging-and-swallowing\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:57:32","slug":"gagging-and-swallowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/26\/gagging-and-swallowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagging and swallowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Blacks are gagging on the donkey but not yet ready to swallow the elephant.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; George W. Bush, quoting Charlie Gaines, while addressing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/07\/20040723-8.html\" title=\"President Emphasizes Minority Entrepreneurship at Urban League\">2004 National Urban League Conference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the transcript, this comment was answered with &#8220;laughter and applause.&#8221; My first response was more along the lines of a dropped jaw. Simply amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more fun commentary on this by doing a simple Google search for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22gagging+on+the+donkey%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" title=\"'gagging on the donkey'\">gagging on the donkey<\/a>&#8221; (admittedly, rather amusing in itself).<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Nica&#8217;s Dream&#8221; by Blakey, Art and the Jazz Messengers feat. Silver, Horace from the album <em>Jazz: The Definitive Performances<\/em> (1956, 11:53).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blacks are gagging on the donkey but not yet ready to swallow the elephant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}