{"id":48503,"date":"2015-06-24T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48503"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:54:41","slug":"the-clinton-confederate-flag-conspiracy-theory-is-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/06\/the-clinton-confederate-flag-conspiracy-theory-is-a-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clinton-Confederate Flag Conspiracy Theory Is a New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/24\/the-clinton-confederate-flag-conspiracy-theory-is-a-new-low.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1435137312640.cached.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The national debate over the future of the Confederate flag that flies in front of the state\u2019s capitol has unwittingly given rise to one of the more bizarre Clinton conspiracy theories to date: that Bill and Hillary Clinton, despite decades as civil rights advocates and their right-wing caricature as Northeast liberal elites, are closet Confederate sympathizers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The meme took off on Sunday, when The Daily Caller ran a story under the headline \u201cFlashback: Bill Clinton Honored the Confederacy on Arkansas State Flag.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dThe next morning, the hosts of Fox &amp; Friends debated whether Hillary Clinton had refused to denounce the Confederate flag flying in front of the South Carolina (though she actually did denounce it in 2007) out of loyalty to her husband, who, Elisabeth Hasselbeck said, \u201csigned a law honoring the Confederacy in Arkansas and about the flag\u2019s design in 1987&#8230;that stated, \u2018the blue star is to commemorate the Confederate states of America.\u201dThe legislation that The Daily Caller, Fox &amp; Friends, and now dozens of conservative blogs are referencing was a bill to make the flag that Arkansas had flown since 1924 the state\u2019s official flag. That flag includes four stars, three to symbolize the countries that held the Arkansas territory\u2014Spain, France and the United States\u2014and the fourth, as Hasselbeck said, \u201cto commemorate the Confederate states of America.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full Article: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/24\/the-clinton-confederate-flag-conspiracy-theory-is-a-new-low.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Clinton-Confederate Flag Conspiracy Theory Is a New Low &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national debate over the future of the Confederate flag that flies in front of the state\u2019s capitol has unwittingly given rise to one of the more bizarre Clinton conspiracy theories to date: that Bill and Hillary Clinton, despite decades as civil rights advocates and their right-wing caricature as Northeast liberal elites, are closet Confederate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1628,22,7],"tags":[1670,1622,1870],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48508,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48503\/revisions\/48508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}