{"id":4762,"date":"2008-09-03T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/a-party-that-looks-like-america\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:35:04","slug":"a-party-that-looks-like-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"A Party That Looks Like America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson used to have a stock story tying diversity to his mother&#8217;s patchwork quilt, which featured all the colors of the rainbow. After Jackson used the line at the 1984 convention, comedian Mark Russell riffed on that, saying that at their own convention, the Republicans could unveil their own quilt, which also featured all the colors of the rainbow &#8212; like white! Off white! Bone! Ivory! French vanilla! Cream!<\/p>\n<p><em>Plus \u00e7a change, plus c&#8217;est la m\u00eame chose:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gopdiversity.jpg\" title=\"gopdiversity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gopdiversity.jpg\" title=\"gopdiversity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gopdiversity.jpg\" alt=\"gopdiversity.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jedreport.com\/2008\/09\/a-liar-among-liars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Via<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson used to have a stock story tying diversity to his mother&#8217;s patchwork quilt, which featured all the colors of the rainbow. After Jackson used the line at the 1984 convention, comedian Mark Russell riffed on that, saying that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}