{"id":12406,"date":"2010-08-03T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12406"},"modified":"2010-08-03T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:39:58","slug":"from-the-depths-of-page-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12406","title":{"rendered":"From The Depths Of Page 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed in the Strib, the Freedom Foundation&#8217;s Jonathan Blake\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/99664494.html?page=1&amp;c=y\">Jo unload&#8217;s on the left&#8217;s (and media&#8217;s) hypocrisy<\/a> on Target (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recent uproar over Target Corp.&#8217;s $150,000 contribution to MN Forward, a business-friendly political action committee that is running ads in favor of a probusiness gubernatorial candidate, has officially become a media phenomenon, covered in virtually all of the state&#8217;s newspapers, blogs and TV newscasts. It&#8217;s even made national news.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Minnesota&#8217;s largest public employee unions have already spent five times that sum, more than $750,000, on the upcoming election<\/strong>, virtually all of it in support of a single political party and its allies. That story has been relegated to deep inside the local section, if it is covered at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the owner of the &#8220;local section&#8221; has a dog in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Their refusal to endorse Emmer in a primary that he&#8217;s going to win by 90 points is kind of a tell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed in the Strib, the Freedom Foundation&#8217;s Jonathan Blake\u00a0\u00a0Jo unload&#8217;s on the left&#8217;s (and media&#8217;s) hypocrisy on Target (emphasis added): The recent uproar over Target Corp.&#8217;s $150,000 contribution to MN Forward, a business-friendly political action committee that is running ads in favor of a probusiness gubernatorial candidate, has officially become a media phenomenon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406","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=12406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}