{"id":12637,"date":"2010-08-16T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2010-08-16T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:08:22","slug":"you-can-lie-but-you-can-not-get-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"You Can Lie, But You Can Not Get Away With It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I bagged on the regional left for recycling each others&#8217; stories long after they&#8217;ve been debunked.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to think it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re all talking from the same slate of topics. It&#8217;s so prevalent it&#8217;s also tempting to think that it&#8217;s a matter of top-down policy &#8211; to repeat not only the big lies but the little ones often enough that people start to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Cackling Spoo<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thecuckingstool.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/you-can-run-but-you-cannot-hide.html?spref=tw\">&#8220;Spot&#8221;<\/a> repeats an old slander:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[GOP gubernatorial nominee Tom Emmer] also been a fan and financial supporter of Bradlee Dean&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, if you want the facts about anything to do with politics, you need to go to a conservative blog. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11095\">This &#8220;issue&#8221; is no exception<\/a>; we gut-shot that particular meme two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Twin Cities leftyblogs; continually confirming the adage &#8220;Distrust, then verify. \u00a0Then carry on with the distrust&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I bagged on the regional left for recycling each others&#8217; stories long after they&#8217;ve been debunked. It&#8217;s tempting to think it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re all talking from the same slate of topics. It&#8217;s so prevalent it&#8217;s also tempting to think that it&#8217;s a matter of top-down policy &#8211; to repeat not only the big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","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=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}