{"id":766,"date":"2013-08-20T23:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:39:42","slug":"rep-scott-desjarlais-tells-11-year-old-girl-there-is-no-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/08\/20\/rep-scott-desjarlais-tells-11-year-old-girl-there-is-no-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Scott DesJarlais tells 11-year-old girl there is no Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
At a Rutherford County town hall meeting last week, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais told an 11-year-old girl that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, as part of a bizarre rant that began after she asked DesJarlais<\/a> if anything could be done to stop her father, an undocumented immigrant, from being deported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Responding to the girl’s question, DesJarlais said, “We have laws, and we need to follow those laws, and that’s where we’re at,” which was met with cheers and applause from the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then DesJarlais proceeded to deliver a seemingly interminable stream of pointed statements, directed at the little girl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Oh yeah, there’s no Santa Claus, too,” said DesJarlais. “You know who sets out those Christmas presents and eats those cookies you lay out? Your mother and father. Well, this next Christmas, it’ll just be your mother.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Also, you know what?” said DesJarlais. “Even if you study hard all through school and do your best, there’s a chance that in a couple of years you might just get knocked up by a deadbeat boyfriend. Or you might be forced into a loveless, soul-crushing marriage.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Is your favorite film Good Will Hunting<\/i>?” asked DesJarlais. “Because it looks like you’ve been hunting<\/i> at Goodwill<\/i> for that dress you’re wearing.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“In your face, little girl!” said DesJarlais. “BOO-YEAH!”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a Rutherford County town hall meeting last week, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais told an 11-year-old girl that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, as part of a bizarre rant that began after she asked DesJarlais if anything could be done to stop her father, an undocumented immigrant, from being deported. Responding to the girl’s question, DesJarlais said, “We have laws, and we need to follow those laws, and that’s where we’re at,” which was met with cheers and applause from the audience. Then DesJarlais proceeded to deliver a seemingly interminable stream of pointed statements, directed at the little girl. “Oh yeah,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}