{"id":7671,"date":"2020-08-02T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2020-08-02T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:12:23","slug":"the-tan-suit-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7671","title":{"rendered":"The Tan Suit Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember when Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network had an absolute conniption fit about then<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" President Barack Obama wearing a tan suit during the summer time (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/08\/28\/tan-suit-scandal-obama-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\"> President Barack Obama wearing a tan suit during the summer time<\/a>.  This and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Obama's using spicy mustard on his food (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/barack-obama-donald-trump-russia-investigation-dijon-mustard-scandal-fox-fake-623643\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s using spicy mustard on his food<\/a> were horrendous, earth shattering scandals to the right-wing conservative jackals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to 2020 and look who&#8217;s trying to wear a tan suit; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mitch-mcconnell-tan-suit-barack-obama_n_5f15f305c5b651977c052188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"none other than Moscow Mitch &quot;Turtle Boy&quot; McConnell (opens in a new tab)\">none other than Moscow Mitch &#8220;Turtle Boy&#8221; McConnell<\/a>. As far as who wore it better, it&#8217;s not even close. Obama looks like a super suave, debonair CHAMP while McConnell looks like a salesman at a discount mattress warehouse trying to sell you a slightly used model . . . or in other words . . . a CHUMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whoworeitbetterobamamcconnelltansuit.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama wore his tan suit like a Champ, while Moscow Mitch &quot;Turtle Boy&quot; McConnell wore his tan suit like a Chump, looking more like a salesman at a discount mattress warehouse trying to sell you a slightly used model.\" class=\"wp-image-7670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whoworeitbetterobamamcconnelltansuit.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whoworeitbetterobamamcconnelltansuit-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Former President Barack Obama wore his tan suit like a Champ,  while Moscow Mitch &#8220;Turtle Boy&#8221; McConnell wore his tan suit like a Chump, looking more like a salesman at a discount mattress warehouse trying to sell you a slightly used model.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network had an absolute conniption fit about then President Barack Obama wearing a tan suit during the summer time. This and Obama&#8217;s using spicy mustard on his food were horrendous, earth shattering scandals to the right-wing conservative jackals. Fast forward to 2020 and look who&#8217;s trying to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tan Suit Controversy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,963,3,35],"tags":[22,185,4,712,1953,43,98,296,19,661,2226,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}