{"id":2874,"date":"2008-04-26T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/26\/2874\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T20:15:46","slug":"2874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/26\/2874\/","title":{"rendered":"I think this is political suicide, don’t you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A congressional candidate appeared <\/a>last Sunday at a birthday party for Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

“I told (WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind.) in the beginning that I’d speak to any group that wanted me to speak,” Tony Zirkle, a candidate for the Republican nomination in Indiana’s\u00c2\u00a0 2nd district, tells The News-Dispatch<\/em><\/a>, adding: “I’m keeping my promise. I’ll speak to any group. (The National Socialist Workers Party) was interested in the targeting of white people for prostitution.”<\/p>\n

The lawyer addressed 56 “white activists” at a meeting in Chicago, according to the paper, which published a photo that shows him standing in front of a large portrait of Hitler.<\/p>\n

“Some people are going to impute motives and say things that I mean, but many of these people have never even talked to me. So their ability to say what I intended is not very credible,” Zirkle tells the wire service.<\/p>\n

Asked if he agrees with the Nazis’ racist ideology, the News-Dispatch<\/em> reports that Zirkle demurred, saying “he didn’t know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.”<\/p>\n

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What’s odd is that surfing around for comments, I see people give the unruly advice of testing his “Will speak before anyone” idea with the absurd idea of approaching him as members of NAMBLA.\u00c2\u00a0 As though, you know, a Nazi group positioning him in front of a picture of Adolf Hilter weren’t as ridiculous enough.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, I am trying to figure out what information Zirkle could possibly be given to guide him to an opinion one way or the other about Nazis.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe he needs to see the Indiana Jones movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A congressional candidate appeared last Sunday at a birthday party for Adolf Hitler. “I told (WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind.) in the beginning that I’d speak to any group that wanted me to speak,” Tony Zirkle, a candidate for the Republican nomination in Indiana’s\u00c2\u00a0 2nd district, tells The News-Dispatch, adding: “I’m keeping my promise. I’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}