sketch in 2013<\/a>. Yes, O\u2019Brien was dressed as a Union soldier, but this feels like the typical exaggerated outrage story the media loves.<\/p>\nIt sparked anger among many on the left, include the Rev. Al Sharpton and pundits on MSNBC.<\/p>\n
There are many reasons for concern over Mastriano \u2014 he didn’t just participate in the protests at the Capitol on Jan. 6, he spent thousands of his own dollars to send buses of his constituents to join him in what became a riot.<\/p>\n
He is an extremist election denier. He may be the reason Republicans lose an election they could have won.<\/p>\n
But dressing up as a Confederate soldier does not show he is treasonous, or pro-slavery, or whatever. It does show how much the media looks for outrage often in the wrong places.<\/p>\n
The views expressed in this article are those of the author, and not of NewsNation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NewsNation) \u2014 Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is a lightning rod candidate. He has suggested that if elected governor, he can decertify all voting machines. He also participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 demonstration that led to the Capitol riot, and he has threatened to defund the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Those are real issues, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-26T212210Z_260478631_RC2NFB8XFE9J_RTRMADP_3_USA-POLITICS-MASTRIANO.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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