{"id":5326,"date":"2004-08-08T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2021-06-10T02:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T02:51:13","slug":"secret-service-asks-about-photographers-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/08\/secret-service-asks-about-photographers-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service Asks About Photographers&#8217; Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/mcwatch04\/mc0804a04.html\">Secret Service Asks About Photographers&#8217; Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On July 30, the day before Dick Cheney appeared in Tucson, a rally organizer for Bush-Cheney asked about the race of several local journalists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The campaign &#8220;insisted on knowing the race&#8221; of an Arizona Daily Star photographer, Mamta Popat, who was assigned to cover the event, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Managing Editor Teri Hayt refused. &#8220;It was such an outrageous request, I was personally insulted,&#8221; she said, according to an article by C. J. Karamargin in that paper on July 31. Popat ultimately did get to photograph<br \/>\nCheney.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Diaz, a spokesman for Bush-Cheney, told the paper that the requested information was &#8220;to ensure the safety of all those involved, including the Vice President of the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Service Asks About Photographers&#8217; Race On July 30, the day before Dick Cheney appeared in Tucson, a rally organizer for Bush-Cheney asked about the race of several local journalists. The campaign &#8220;insisted on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}