{"id":1122,"date":"2007-07-30T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2007-07-30T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T21:57:09","slug":"where-credit-is-due-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"

My NARNII colleague Ed noted something<\/a> that I’d noticed and started writing about\u00a0myself; the local leftymedia’s caviling and cavorting over the death of Norm Coleman Sr.:<\/p>\n

the Minnesota open-borders contingent turned themselves into the equivalent of Fred Phelps<\/font><\/strong><\/a> when they decided to picket the home<\/font><\/strong><\/a> of Senator Norm Coleman — as he and his family prepared to bury his father, Norm Coleman, Sr. Coleman’s presumed opponent for the 2008 Senate Race, Al Franken, couldn’t breathe a word of sympathy<\/font><\/strong><\/a> for Coleman, and some — not all — of the liberal bloggers here in the state followed his lead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He went on to quote a pretty ghastly, self-indulgent bit of rationalization on the part of the ghouls<\/strike> “protesters” who tried to disrupt the Coleman family’s mourning.<\/p>\n

And I join Ed in noting…:<\/p>\n

we should acknowledge those who did show class. Liberal bloggers and Coleman opponents MNPublius<\/font><\/strong><\/a> and Centrisity<\/font><\/strong><\/a> had the class to acknowledge the personal loss of our state’s Senator. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who follows these two blogs. Others … didn’t, and that shouldn’t surprise anyone, either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In no case would anyone who watches some of those hamsters be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My NARNII colleague Ed noted something that I’d noticed and started writing about\u00a0myself; the local leftymedia’s caviling and cavorting over the death of Norm Coleman Sr.: the Minnesota open-borders contingent turned themselves into the equivalent of Fred Phelps when they decided to picket the home of Senator Norm Coleman — as he and his family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}