{"id":12573,"date":"2010-08-12T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:38:04","slug":"chanting-points-memo-maaaaaah-toms-smearing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: “Maaaaaah! Tom’s Smearing Me!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the DFL “Unity” rally yesterday, Mark Dayton – who has funded, along with his family, the most expensive orgy of attack advertising in Minnesota history, unprecedented in both its cost and its fallaciousness – \u00a0complained<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I expected the smears to start right away, and they have.”<\/p>\n

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He was complaining, of course, because after a month of carping on Emmer’s 20 and 30 year old careless driving arrests (and lying about his legislative record), the GOP – not <\/em>the Emmer campaign – took out an ad highlighting Dayton’s genuine and recent erratic behavior.<\/p>\n

Leaving aside that the MNGOP’s ad buy will be a tiny fraction of what “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” spent smearing Tom Emmer (on the Dayton family dime), one must ask; is reporting facts<\/em> – something A4aBM never tried in re Emmer’s record – a “smear”? \u00a0How does Dayton feel about the “smearing” that his family-funded PAC has been funding for the past month?<\/p>\n

This is the beginning of the latest chanting point from the left. \u00a0On Tuesday night, Jeff Rosenberg of the leftyblog MNPublius <\/em> – a good guy, but as reliable a barometer of the direction of DFL spin as exists in the Twin Cities lefty “alternative” media since Dusty Trice exited the blogging stage in a welter of snark-splat – tweeted his vision of the upcoming discourse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dayton\/DFL: “We should really solve the budget problem.” Emmer\/GOP: “MARK DAYTON IS A POOHEAD.:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is an interesting take, given that while Dayton, his family and cronies have funded more attack ads in the past month than ran in the entire 2006 campaign against Pawlenty.<\/p>\n

So let me ask you this, Jeff Rosenberg and, by the way, every single other lefty commentator: name and document one single attack that has come from Tom Emmer<\/em> in this cycle, against anyone<\/em>; against any of his convention opponents, or Kelliher, Entenza, Horner or Dayton.<\/p>\n

You can not, of course. \u00a0Emmer has taken an utterly scrupulous high road – as has his main political action committee, MNForward, funded by Minnesota businesses.<\/p>\n

But expect this narrative over the next week or two; that Dayton is a victim<\/strong><\/span><\/em>!<\/p>\n

Indeed, I’m going to go out on a thick, strong limb and say Dayton will issue nothing substantial for the next week; he’ll whing about being “Targetboated”, and he’ll redouble the efforts of \u00a0his goons at A4aBM.<\/p>\n

Enjoy this, Minnesota. \u00a0This is your 2010 model DFL in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the DFL “Unity” rally yesterday, Mark Dayton – who has funded, along with his family, the most expensive orgy of attack advertising in Minnesota history, unprecedented in both its cost and its fallaciousness – \u00a0complained: “I expected the smears to start right away, and they have.” He was complaining, of course, because after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,79],"tags":[115,312],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-slander-files","tag-abm","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","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=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47803,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions\/47803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}