{"id":37610,"date":"2012-03-05T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37610"},"modified":"2012-03-05T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T20:06:19","slug":"pastor-comes-to-defense-of-clovis-mayoral-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/03\/pastor-comes-to-defense-of-clovis-mayoral-hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor comes to defense of Clovis mayoral hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial pastor who doesn\u2019t believe President Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen has come to the defense of a Clovis mayoral candidate involved in his movement.<\/p>\n<p>James David Manning released the web video late last week. You can watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/atlah.org\/2012\/03\/02\/lansford-is-a-patriot\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aLWTyM-VxAc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you watch the video, you\u2019ll see a statement on the screen claiming that NMPolitics.net has called Lansford a \u201cwack job.\u201d That\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>What NMPolitics.net did was post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/clovis-mayoral-hopefuls-anti-obama-views-scrutinized\/\" target=\"_blank\">a short article<\/a> about the Clovis News Journal highlighting Lansford\u2019s views that Obama is \u201cthe carnal manifestation of evil\u201d and not a natural-born U.S. citizen. NMPolitics.net did not opine on those views.<\/p>\n<p>Manning\u2019s ATLAH Media Network is part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/atlah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ATLAH World Missionary Church<\/a>. The pastor has been critical of Obama, having called the president\u2019s mother \u201cwhite trash\u201d for becoming pregnant by a black man out of wedlock. Manning teaches that Harlem, in New York, is \u201cthe Land Anointed Holy\u201d and opposes its gentrification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: A controversial pastor who doesn\u2019t believe President Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen has come to the defense of a Clovis mayoral candidate involved in his movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[274,273,272,116],"class_list":["post-37610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-barack-obama","tag-birthers","tag-clovis","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}