{"id":10804,"date":"2010-05-07T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2010-05-07T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:39:47","slug":"lets-have-some-fun-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10804","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Have Some Fun Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really dislike political black-bag tricks.\u00a0 I have little patience for oppo research, and don’t care much for the kind of political pranks that keep politics geeks giggling into the hours.<\/p>\n

If there’s one thing I like less, it’s ofay, lie-clogged false-flag sites.\u00a0 Like “Tom Emmer’s Minnesota”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m not going to link it here; I’m going to ask you to Google “Emmer For Governor” (I’ve helpfully done it for you here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If you see, as I do, a “sponsored link” to “Tom Emmer’s Minnesota” at the top of the page, do us a favor and click it.<\/p>\n

Don’t read it or anything – or read it knowing that every word on the site is bullshirt (as I’m showing, point by point, in my “Chanting Points Memo<\/a>” project).\u00a0<\/p>\n

But whomever put the site out is paying for every person who clicks on the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And every dollar they spend getting people to click in is a dollar they can’t spend on anything useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really dislike political black-bag tricks.\u00a0 I have little patience for oppo research, and don’t care much for the kind of political pranks that keep politics geeks giggling into the hours. If there’s one thing I like less, it’s ofay, lie-clogged false-flag sites.\u00a0 Like “Tom Emmer’s Minnesota”.\u00a0 I’m not going to link it here; I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","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=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10806,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}