{"id":1154,"date":"2007-08-06T05:28:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T10:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2007-08-06T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T14:15:52","slug":"making-st-up-as-they-go-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Making S**t Up As They Go Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing about the President&#8217;s visit on Saturday to the site of the 35W River Bridge collapse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?s=fecke\">Jeff Fecke<\/a> of the Minnesota Monitor <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2170\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush will be in town Saturday to survey the damage caused by the deadly collapse of the bridge, <strong>and to attend the Republican Party&#8217;s summer meeting, which is being held in Minneapolis<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Brodkorb left <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showComment.do?commentId=9522\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showComment.do?commentId=9523\">comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you confirmed with the White House that Bush is speaking at the Summer RNC meeting?\u00a0 Have you confirmed this with the RNC? I haven&#8217;t seen this reported anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[and&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>According to my source, the meeting has adjourned. President Bush did not attend the meeting, nor was he ever scheduled to attend the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President landed in the Twin Cities (I watched it on TV) around 9:30, and got to downtown Minnepolis within the following hour; the RNC had reportedly adjourned about the time the President landed.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; Jeff Fecke?\u00a0 Where <em>did <\/em>you get this little tidbit?<\/p>\n<p>To be fair &#8211; we have no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=987\">indication that the statement was plagiarized<\/a>, per se.<\/p>\n<p>But what <em>is <\/em>the source of this apparently utterly-fallacious statement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing about the President&#8217;s visit on Saturday to the site of the 35W River Bridge collapse, Jeff Fecke of the Minnesota Monitor wrote: Bush will be in town Saturday to survey the damage caused by the deadly collapse of the bridge, and to attend the Republican Party&#8217;s summer meeting, which is being held in Minneapolis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,36,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-bridge-collapse","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","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=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}