{"id":11397,"date":"2010-06-15T07:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2010-06-15T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:31:26","slug":"the-independence-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11397","title":{"rendered":"The Independence Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the DFL and media (pardon the redundancy)\u00a0 are in full promotion mode trying to keep the &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Independence<\/span>&#8221; Ventura Party going long enough to try to try to spoil the Emmer campaign, it&#8217;s time to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/hfontova\/2010\/06\/14\/oliver-stone-jesse-ventura-tag-team-for-hugo-chavez-to-smack-down-america\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigHollywood+%28Big+Hollywood%29&amp;utm_content=Twitter\"> remember the madness that Ventura brings to Minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On King\u2019s show the \u201cTag-Team\u201d of Jesse Ventura and Oliver Stone staged a vicious \u201cSmack-Down\u201d against Florida Republican Congressman Connie Mack, who serves as Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. (But what does he know about this stuff?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s become a big supporter of Hugo Chavez (on top of being a 9\/11 truther):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having been honored to see a private screening of Stone\u2019s new film [about tropical socialism],\u00a0 the self-styled\u00a0 \u201clibertarian\u201d, Ventura,\u00a0 declared on camera that Stone\u2019s\u00a0 U.S.\u2013bashing\u00a0 Infomercial\u00a0 for\u00a0 Tropical Stalinism\u00a0 \u201cshould be mandatory viewing for every U.S. high school senior.\u201d (That\u2019s \u201c<em>mandatory<\/em>,\u201d remember.)<\/p>\n<p>When a smirking Congressman Mack heard this proposed mandate for the U.S. school curriculum, he pulled a \u201cJacknife Flip\u201d on his \u201clibertarian\u201d opponent by pointedly asking Ventura how he could suggest <em>enforcing<\/em> such a thing.\u00a0 Ventura\u2019s stint in the World Wrestling Federation (as both performer and announcer) sprang to the rescue in the reply: he manufactured an impromptu tantrum. For full effect, Ventura\u2019s performance featured hurtful frowns followed by blood-curdling snarls. Congressman Mack, you see, had not addressed Ventura as \u201cGovernor,\u201d and so ignited his ire.\u00a0 Needless to add, Governor Ventura never answered the question, as Congressman Mack stood patiently waiting\u2013and smirking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he&#8217;ll stay in Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the DFL and media (pardon the redundancy)\u00a0 are in full promotion mode trying to keep the &#8220;Independence&#8221; Ventura Party going long enough to try to try to spoil the Emmer campaign, it&#8217;s time to\u00a0 remember the madness that Ventura brings to Minnesota On King\u2019s show the \u201cTag-Team\u201d of Jesse Ventura and Oliver Stone staged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","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=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11404,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}