{"id":7158,"date":"2012-06-22T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2012-06-22T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T17:39:01","slug":"gay-activists-visiting-white-house-photo-themselves-flipping-off-reagan-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/gay-activists-visiting-white-house-photo-themselves-flipping-off-reagan-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Activists Visiting the White House Photo Themselves Flipping Off Reagan Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invited leftist gay activist, guests of the Emperor for a &#8220;gay pride party&#8221; held at the White House, could not resist taking out their frustration for republicans. So they took it upon themselves to give Ronald Reagan the &#8220;bird&#8221;. Mike Flynn over at BigGovernment writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/06\/22\/gay-activists-know-nothing-about-reagan-history\">gay activists know nothing about Reagan, history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is disgusting and these people are degenerates. These are the types of <del>people<\/del> <a title=\"Monsters!\" href=\"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/monsters\/\">monsters<\/a> the White House embraces.<br \/>\nDo you want four more years of this America or have you had enough yet?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"flipping off reagan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/files\/2012\/06\/republicans.jpg?resize=452%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"zoe strauss flipping off reagan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theblaze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Reagan-WH-Zoe-Strauss-FB.jpg?resize=233%2C310\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"310\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/2012\/06\/22\/gay-activists-give-ronald-reagan-finger-white-house\/\">PhillyMag<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last Friday, an attach\u00c3\u00a9 of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first-ever gay pride reception. There, they danced to the sounds of a Marine Corps band; they dined on crab cakes and canap\u00c3\u00a9s; they hand-delivered letters from concerned citizens like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiaweekly.com\/news-and-opinion\/news\/159617395.html\" target=\"_blank\">this 18-year old who has had four people close to him gunned down<\/a>, and noted rhyming raconteur <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/2012\/03\/29\/poet-ca-conrad-storm-philadelphia-magazine-offices-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">CA Conrad<\/a>; and some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Ronald Reagan the middle finger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a gesture that <em>I <\/em>would use in the White House when representing our city and our community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d opines<em>Philadelphia Gay News<\/em> publisher Mark Segal (center), who opted for a sarcastic thumbs-up pose in front of the portrait of George W. Bush over the more vulgar one demonstrated by his Reagan-loathing peers, Matthew \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Matty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hart (left), the national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress, and self-taught photographer turned toast-of-the-town Zoe Strauss (right).<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have friends who work in that building,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Segal explains. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to do something that could embarrass them or that could somehow damage a campaign that is so important. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBe on your best behavior,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 my staff told me.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 I think they know me too well.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/2012\/06\/22\/gay-activists-give-ronald-reagan-finger-white-house\/\">read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invited leftist gay activist, guests of the Emperor for a &#8220;gay pride party&#8221; held at the White House, could not resist taking out their frustration for republicans. 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