{"id":26230,"date":"2011-08-18T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T21:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26230"},"modified":"2011-08-18T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T21:46:56","slug":"nuts-it-takes-all-kinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26230","title":{"rendered":"Nuts! It Takes All Kinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/somethings_are.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Armorer: \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/08\/17\/297619\/allen-west-nuts\/\">\u2018NUTS!\u2019 \u2014 Allen West\u2019s Strange, One-Word Response To Being Called Out For Ties To Islamophobes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this month, a local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent Rep. Allen West (R-FL) a letter asking him to cut off ties with leading anti-Muslim activists like Pamela Geller and Brigitte Gabriel with whom he had shared stages before. Muslims protect and serve our great country and are afforded equal protection under law,\u201d said the letter. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have to defend our rights to worship freely or participate in the governing of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, CAIR has received a letter from West with a one-word response to their request. In what the Miami New Times is calling possibly \u201cdumbest thing ever written on congressional stationery,\u201d West simply wrote back, \u201cNUTS!\u201d Here\u2019s a copy of the letter:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nutz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26231\" title=\"nutz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nutz-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nutz-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nutz.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And those at Think Progress were very perceptive to note: <strong>&#8220;Whatever he meant by his response, one thing West did not appear to offer is any sort of condemnation of the radical anti-Muslim company he has been keeping.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Armorer: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2018NUTS!\u2019 \u2014 Allen West\u2019s Strange, One-Word Response To Being Called Out &hellip; <a title=\"Nuts! It Takes All Kinds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26230\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuts! It Takes All Kinds<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}