{"id":1712702,"date":"2022-10-27T05:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712702"},"modified":"2022-10-27T05:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:03:35","slug":"mandela-barnes-god-country-and-guns-rhetoric-as-dangerous-as-isis-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mandela-barnes-god-country-and-guns-rhetoric-as-dangerous-as-isis-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela Barnes: \u2018God, Country, and Guns\u2019 Rhetoric as Dangerous as ISIS Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmandela-barnes-god-country-and-guns-rhetoric-as-dangerous-as-isis-terrorists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Wisconsin Dem praised Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic Wisconsin Senate candidate Mandela Barnes \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 October 27, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes said people who support &#8220;God, country, and guns&#8221; are espousing the same &#8220;dangerous&#8221; rhetoric as members of the terrorist group ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes made the comments in a Twitter post in November 2015, two days after terrorists carried out a string of coordinated attacks in France that killed 130 people. ISIS\u2014which claimed at the time that it had established a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria\u2014took credit for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are people in the legislature who feel a caliphate threat is real in America,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/666363640132542470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Barnes in a Nov. 16, 2015, post. &#8220;I try to remind them of their theocratic votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God, country, and guns is as dangerous of a rhetoric here as it is over there,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/666363864620122112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a> Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>The comments could fuel concerns over Barnes&#8217;s fiery and often controversial social media posts. His opponent, Republican senator Ron Johnson, has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ronjohnsonwi\/status\/1583099793618132998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed<\/a> Barnes over posts praising Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and defending Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, which were first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/barnes-praises-khamenei-hopes-to-be-dennis-rodman-of-the-assad-regime\/\">reported<\/a> by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In other posts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/09\/29\/mandela-barnes-us-senate-candidate-vs-ron-johnson-2022-election-on-twitter-donald-trump-russian-spy\/10440513002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicized<\/a> by the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>, Barnes said he &#8220;really could not care less about a Second Amendment \u2018right'&#8221; to bear arms and mocked House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) for supporting gun rights after the Republican got shot by a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He also slammed George Washington as a slave owner after another Twitter user called Washington &#8220;one of the top presidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah. I mean, if slave owning is your thing, have at it!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/1204937268923944960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has tried to distance himself from last year&#8217;s &#8220;defund the police&#8221; and &#8220;Abolish ICE&#8221; movements despite taking <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/wisconsin-dem-takes-far-left-groups-money-but-claims-he-doesnt-support-their-policies\/\">funding<\/a> from those groups and making social media posts that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/07\/politics\/kfile-mandela-barnes-signaled-support-abolish-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicate<\/a>\u00a0he supported those campaigns. The Johnson campaign has highlighted the Democrat&#8217;s long history of far-left positions, including his support for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/republicans-slam-mandela-barness-support-for-eliminating-cash-bail\/\">ending<\/a> cash bail, his <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/video-watch-mandela-barnes-say-world-must-stymie-capitalism-to-combat-climate-change\/\">argument<\/a> that the United States must &#8220;stymie capitalism&#8221; to address climate change, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/exclusive-video-mandela-barnes-rules-out-even-encouraging-new-pipeline-construction\/\">opposition<\/a> to pipeline construction and domestic energy production.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson holds a 3.3-point lead over Barnes, according to the <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average. The competitive race could determine party control of the Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes said people who support &#8220;God, country, and guns&#8221; are espousing the same &#8220;dangerous&#8221; rhetoric as members of the terrorist group ISIS.<br \/>\nThe post Mandela Barnes: \u2018God, Country, and Guns\u2019 Rhetoric as Dangerous as ISIS Terrorists appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1712705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}