{"id":32046,"date":"2011-02-26T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/oprah-the-cow-no-really\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T13:06:00","slug":"oprah-the-cow-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/oprah-the-cow-no-really.php","title":{"rendered":"Oprah the Cow. No, really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-PxaWo95zrUM\/TWj-LgY5ihI\/AAAAAAAAQ88\/RIB8tI4IRvg\/s1600\/DiannaWatermanscow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a4f82_DiannaWatermanscow.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>PC WATCH!<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Diana Waterman is the newly-elected Vice-Chair of the Republican Party of Maryland.  And she has found herself in a big controversy.  <\/p><p>Seems locals in Queens Anne County, on a local community blog, have discovered a huge scandal: She has a black cow named Oprah. The cow is actually a Black Angus.<\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/politics\/Holy-Cow---116595973.html?dr\">NBC Washington<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jpyQUx6UrJo\/TWj-TlaDhoI\/AAAAAAAAQ9E\/ZZG46GImKrk\/s1600\/DianaWatermanMDGOP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a4f82_DianaWatermanMDGOP.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>According to the Baltimore Sun, the issue came to light on a recent Facebook posting when the cow birthed a calf.<\/p><p>The Sun says the posting caught the attention of Sveinn Storm, who runs a Queen Anne's County-focused blog called \"Pave Our County?\"<\/p><p>Storm criticized Waterman's naming the cow after the African-American talk show host who has struggled with her weight.  Storm say that's \"precisely why an enormouse number of Americans view Republicans as racists.\"<\/p><p>Waterman defends the name.  In a response to the Sun she said her children named the family's three cows.  Oprah was named for a person they admire.  The other two, Ferdinand and Isabella are named after the Spanish monarchs who approved Christopher Columbus's trip to the New World.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The State GOP is not rolling over for the PC mavens. A spokesman for the Maryland Republican Party commented:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"With Maryland facing a record budget deficit, historic unemployment and a government that spends beyond its means, I'm not sure why we're talking about cows,\" said Ryan Mahoney.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Photo - Waterman with libertarian Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson at the most recent State GOP convention in Ocean City.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a4f82_7828681836623105417-4344867277249442989?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC WATCH!From Eric Dondero:Diana Waterman is the newly-elected Vice-Chair of the Republican Party of Maryland. And she has found herself in a big controversy. Seems locals in Queens Anne County, on a local community blog, have discovered a huge scandal: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/oprah-the-cow-no-really.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}