{"id":52016,"date":"2022-09-07T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T23:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52016"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:31:25","slug":"mccarthy-calls-on-biden-to-apologize-for-semi-fascism-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52016","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy calls on Biden to apologize for \u2018semi-fascism\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u00a0(R-Calif.) called on President Biden to use a prime-time speech to apologize for a remark calling \u201cMAGA\u201d philosophy \u201csemi-fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has chosen to divide, demean and disparage his fellow Americans. Why? Simply because they disagree with his policies. That is not leadership,\u201d McCarthy said in a prebuttal speech to Biden\u2019s planned address from the president\u2019s hometown of Scranton, Pa., Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the President speaks tonight at Independence Hall, the first lines out of his mouth [should] be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u00a0(R-Calif.) called&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52017,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016\/revisions\/52017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}