{"id":12574,"date":"2020-08-20T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12574"},"modified":"2020-08-19T22:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:22:59","slug":"hanson-michelle-obama-told-dems-to-go-high-after-her-husband-tried-to-destroy-a-political-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hanson-michelle-obama-told-dems-to-go-high-after-her-husband-tried-to-destroy-a-political-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanson: Michelle Obama told Dems to &#8216;go high&#8217; after her husband &#8216;tried to destroy a political campaign&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yael Halon \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/michelle-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michelle Obama<\/a>&nbsp;urged Democrats to take the high road&nbsp;at the virtual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/democratic-convention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democratic National Convention<\/a>&nbsp;Monday night amid an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/barr-durham-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ongoing investigation<\/a>&nbsp;into her husband&#8217;s&nbsp;&#8220;corrupt&#8221; administration,&nbsp;Hoover Institution senior&nbsp;fellow Victor Davis Hanson told &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When she\u00a0says &#8216;We go high when they go\u00a0low,&#8217; she&#8217;s talking right now when\u00a0her husband&#8217;s administration has\u00a0weaponized the IRS, the FBI, the\u00a0DOJ, the CIA, and is the subject\u00a0of a massive investigation by\u00a0[Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham],&#8221; Hanson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/victor-davis-hanson-michelle-obama-dnc-speech?utm_source=Hoover%20Daily%20Report&amp;utm_campaign=d526852fc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_19_05_34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-d526852fc7-73437989\">Watch the interview here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yael Halon \/\/ Fox News Michelle Obama&nbsp;urged Democrats to take the high road&nbsp;at the virtual&nbsp;Democratic National Convention&nbsp;Monday night amid an&nbsp;ongoing investigation&nbsp;into her husband&#8217;s&nbsp;&#8220;corrupt&#8221; administration,&nbsp;Hoover Institution senior&nbsp;fellow Victor Davis Hanson told &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; Tuesday. &#8220;When she\u00a0says &#8216;We go high when they go\u00a0low,&#8217; she&#8217;s talking right now when\u00a0her husband&#8217;s administration has\u00a0weaponized the IRS, the FBI, the\u00a0DOJ, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3gO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1386,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/race-on-the-brain-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12574,"position":0},"title":"Race on the Brain","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner The postmortem of the Sherrod affair will prove it to have been a net negative for the Obama administration \u2014 and not just because of its herky-jerky reaction to various reported and then re-reported statements. 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