{"id":4843,"date":"2005-07-29T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2005-07-29T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T14:30:13","slug":"when-you-find-yourself-in-a-hole-stop-digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-you-find-yourself-in-a-hole-stop-digging\/","title":{"rendered":"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people just don&#8217;t know when to quit. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) raised more than a few eyebrows a couple of weeks ago when he <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CONGRESSMAN_MUSLIMS?SITE=APWEB&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">publicly suggested bombing Mecca<\/a> in the event of a terrorist nuclear strike in the U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Talk show host Pat Campbell asked the Littleton Republican how the country should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, what if you said something like &#8211; if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites,&#8221; Tancredo answered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the host asked if he was talking about destroying Mecca, Tancredo said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_3935487,00.html\">Yeah<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week, Tancredo went on Fox News to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/07\/27.html#a4172\">set the record straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t say nuke anything. I just said &#8216;take out their holy sites.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s much better. When Al Jazeera viewers hear that a member of Congress, with presidential aspirations, from the president&#8217;s own political party, is talking openly &#8220;taking out&#8221; the most sacred of Islamic holy sites, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll take comfort in knowing that he wasn&#8217;t specifically referring to nuclear bombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people just don&#8217;t know when to quit. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) raised more than a few eyebrows a couple of weeks ago when he publicly suggested bombing Mecca in the event of a terrorist nuclear strike in the U.S. Talk show host Pat Campbell asked the Littleton Republican how the country should respond if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}