{"id":12544,"date":"2010-08-10T08:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2010-08-10T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:59:20","slug":"scrubbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12544","title":{"rendered":"Scrubbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Hellier at MDE notes that \u00a0Time Magazine seems to have scrubbed its’ 2006 “The Blunderer” <\/a> story, in which they declared Mark Dayton one of the five worst Senators in the US:<\/p>\n

In 2006, Mark Dayton was named one of America\u2019s Worst Senators by Time Magazine. \u00a0The story was featured in the magazine and online.<\/p>\n

But now, the story can\u2019t be found any where. \u00a0The story can\u2019t be found on Time.com and can\u2019t even be found on Lexis Nexis.<\/p>\n

One has to wonder if Time Magazine decided to pull down the article to prevent more people from reading the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I found a copy on an internet archive site<\/a> that was linked from Dayton’s Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem to be available on Google<\/a> anymore; about a month ago when I wrote about the story, it was top front and center.<\/p>\n

Yet another chapter in the media’s shameful record of being in the bag for the liberal canddiate in a local election?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The text of the story:<\/p>\n

When he was elected in 2000, Minnesota Democrat Mark Dayton seemed well prepared, having worked as an aide to Walter Mondale in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

But he has exhibited erratic behavior since then: in October 2004 he shut down his office for almost a month, citing an unspecified terrorist threat. The 99 other Senators had access to the same intelligence and kept their offices open, even while Dayton went on television to tell his constituents not to visit the Capitol. In February Dayton, 59, made another notable blunder. The Mayo Clinic, which is in Rochester, Minn., was opposed to a South Dakota \u2014 based company’s plan to expand its railroads into Rochester because it would mean dozens of trains passing by the clinic each day. Dayton told FORTUNE magazine the Mayo Clinic is “worth a hell of a lot more than the whole state of South Dakota.” He later apologized for the remark.<\/p>\n

Inside the Senate, Dayton has passed few bills partly because some are too liberal for the Republican-controlled body, including one that would have created a Department of Peace and Nonviolence. He has confounded his colleagues by complaining about basic facts of the job, such as his limited power in a chamber where authority derives from seniority. He announced early last year that he wouldn’t seek re-election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luke Hellier at MDE notes that \u00a0Time Magazine seems to have scrubbed its’ 2006 “The Blunderer” story, in which they declared Mark Dayton one of the five worst Senators in the US: In 2006, Mark Dayton was named one of America\u2019s Worst Senators by Time Magazine. \u00a0The story was featured in the magazine and online. […]<\/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-12544","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\/12544","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=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12556,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}