Yesterday, I asked center-right bloggers to go over the Minnesota Monitor’s published body of work to find quotes seemingly sourced from interviews, and look for suspiciously-similar quotes from other sources.<\/p>\n
An emailer who requested anonymity sent me this one, from Friday’s MinMon<\/a>:<\/p>\n > [Fecke] today: Quoting a statement without attribution?<\/p>\n On the one hand, it’s taken from something intended for free public distribution. On the other hand, a “journalist” is still supposed to give proper attribution when quoting people.<\/p>\n > Do I win a prize?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That deep-down satisfaction one gets when one does a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, I asked center-right bloggers to go over the Minnesota Monitor’s published body of work to find quotes seemingly sourced from interviews, and look for suspiciously-similar quotes from other sources. An emailer who requested anonymity sent me this one, from Friday’s MinMon: > [Fecke] today: > > Second District Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22232,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n> Second District Rep. John Kline<\/span>, R-Minn., did not
\n> respond to repeated requests for information about
\n> his stand on energy policy, and his House website
\n> does not list any policy positions on energy, oil,
\n> or the environment. However, Kline has voted in
\n> favor of opening more oil refineries and has
\n> repeatedly voted in favor of tax breaks for oil
\n> companies. He has been a strong supporter of
\n> drilling off-shore and in the Arctic National
\n> Wildlife Refuge, saying in a debate with Coleen
\n> Rowley, “This is a national security and economic
\n> issue. Will it solve all of our oil problems?
\n> Absolutely not. It’s not a long-term solution–we
\n> do need alternative energy solutions…but we ought
\n> to be taking advantage of those huge resources.”
\n> Kline has supported ethanol subsidies, saying, “I
\n> look forward to gathering bipartisan support to use
\n> <\/strong>Minnesota<\/strong><\/span> agricultural commodities to fuel our
\n> nation.”<\/strong> He also has supported easing environmental
\n> regulations on ethanol producing plants.
\n>
\n> Google returned one hit for that quote:
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\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&q=%22I+look+forward+to+gathering+bipartisan+support+to+use+Minnesota+agricultural+commodities+to+fuel+our+nation.%22&btnG=Search<\/font><\/span><\/a>
\n>
\n> – an ethanol blog which likewise quotes Kline
\n> linking to a statement on Kline’s website:
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\nhttp:\/\/medialab.blogs.com\/our_ethanol_debate\/2007\/03\/what_do_minneso.html<\/font><\/span><\/a>
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\n> Representative Kline<\/span> authored the 10-by-10 Ethanol
\n> Bill. \u201cThe use of ethanol is important to reduce
\n> our dependence on foreign oil and lower the cost of
\n> fossil fuels,\u201d Congressman Kline said. \u201cI look
\n> forward to gathering bipartisan support to use
\n> <\/strong>Minnesota<\/strong><\/span> agricultural commodities to fuel our
\n> nation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n