{"id":1204,"date":"2007-08-17T04:54:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T09:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2007-08-16T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T21:21:52","slug":"found-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Found Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:\u00a0 Where did this <\/em>come from:<\/p>\n

Is this the first signs of the City Pages rightward turn<\/strong>? CP attacks Al Franken in what they claim is “a lighthearted story not meant to be a huge expose.” This is a perfect example of conservative framing: Al Franken should not be considered a serious candidate, we have anecdotal evidence that you should take at face value.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Was it: \u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Scrappleface, impersonating a rabid paranoid leftyblogger?<\/li>\n
  2. Dementee, impersonating a rabid not-too-bright leftyblogger?<\/li>\n
  3. Sisyphus, impersonating a rabid bipolar off-her-meds leftyblogger?<\/li>\n
  4. Ryan Rhodes, impersonating a seriously impacted leftyblogger?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, the answer is “None of the Above”.\u00a0 It’s from “MNBlue”, a piece entitled “First signs of the City Pages rightward turn<\/a>?”\u00a0 (Via MDE<\/a>)<\/p>\n

    The world of competition is crowded with legendary rivalries; Man U and Arsenal; Chicago and Green Bay; the Beatles and the Four Seasons; Turkey and Greece; Tastes Great and Less Filling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    But perhaps the most crowded, intense competition there is is the “Twin Cities’ Unintentionally Funniest Leftyblog” competition.<\/p>\n

    We may need to have a formal poll, one of these days, to pick a “winner”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    MNBlue, though, has to make the short list.\u00a0 Peopled by the likes of the permanently-shrieking longtime Saint Paul DFL dynastician and blood pressure patient Andy “Disarm the Law-Abiding!” Driscoll, the audibly-doddering conspiracy wacko Grace “the troops are a bunch of thugs” Kelly, and “The Big E” (where “E” apparently stands for “Easily Mocked”), it gives Sue Lenfestey and Cucky Stool runs for their money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Hmmm.<\/p>\n

    I smell a contest coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Question:\u00a0 Where did this come from: Is this the first signs of the City Pages rightward turn? CP attacks Al Franken in what they claim is “a lighthearted story not meant to be a huge expose.” This is a perfect example of conservative framing: Al Franken should not be considered a serious candidate, we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","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=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}