{"id":12954,"date":"2010-08-27T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12954"},"modified":"2010-08-27T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T15:38:37","slug":"so-lets-unravel-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12954","title":{"rendered":"So Let’s Unravel This"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following conversation is a “fake but accurate” synthesis of several conversations, emails and twitter threads.<\/p>\n

Names were changed to protect the gullible.<\/p>\n

DFLer: Target is radically anti-gay and anti-immigrant!<\/p>\n

ME: Er, how do you figure? \u00a0Target has been the most pro-gay corporation in town! \u00a0They even sponsor the “pride” parade.<\/p>\n

DFLer: Because they gave money to a radical extremist anti-gay and anti-immigrant political action committee!<\/p>\n

ME: What, MNForward? Go and read their website<\/a>; they are purely interested in business issues. \u00a0Not only do they take absolutely no stands on social issues, but they’ve endorsed three DFL candidates who, supposedly, endorse their own party’s putatively gay-friendly [the term you want is “gay-exploitive” – Ed.<\/em>] issues.<\/p>\n

DFLer: Doesn’t matter. \u00a0They support Tom Emmer.<\/p>\n

ME: …and…?<\/p>\n

DFLer: Tom Emmer is a radical extreme anti-gay politician.<\/p>\n

ME: \u00a0Um no. \u00a0He’s said in as many words that his focus as governor is on jobs, the state economy, and re-engineering state government.<\/p>\n

DFLer: But he’s an anti-gay extremist! \u00a0He sponsored a measure against gay marriage!<\/p>\n

ME: Can something be “extreme” when the vast majority of Minnesotans, even younger ones, support the traditional definition of marriage<\/a>? \u00a0Is that even logically possible? \u00a0At all?<\/p>\n

DFLer: Um…A HAH! \u00a0Emmer is a big financial supporter of You Can Run But You Can Not Hide, a radical Christianist ministry that supports executing gays. \u00a0He even had his picture taken with them! \u00a0Even called them “nice guys”.<\/p>\n

ME: \u00a0Emmer’s “Donation” was buying a $250 seat at a fundraiser for a teen outreach<\/a>; no politics were involved at all. \u00a0And Emmer’s had pictures taken with pretty much every person in the state over the past year. \u00a0And whether you like their theology or not, Brad Dean and Jake McMillan are, indeed, personable.<\/p>\n

DFLer: \u00a0Executing gays! <\/em>Doyyyyy!<\/p>\n

ME: \u00a0The quote was wrenched far out of context. \u00a0Dean was talking on the air, off the cuff, about different nations’ adherence to ultra-orthadox theology. \u00a0Not <\/em>grading moral correctness, and emphatically not <\/em>issuing a call to action.<\/p>\n

DFLer: Er…says you!<\/em><\/p>\n

ME: Well, no – says Bradlee Dean. \u00a0I called him and asked.<\/p>\n

DFLer: But…they’re anti-immigrant!<\/p>\n

ME: Why?<\/p>\n

DFLer: Because they’re anti-gay!<\/p>\n

ME: Um, we just showed they’re not. \u00a0And, by the way, the traditional Catholicism of so many Latino immigrants is pretty explicit in its views on gays!<\/p>\n

DFLer: \u00a0So you’re saying Target is Catholic? \u00a0Hahahahaha! I pwn3d you!<\/p>\n

ME: \u00a0Er…yeah. \u00a0I know when I’ve met my match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following conversation is a “fake but accurate” synthesis of several conversations, emails and twitter threads. Names were changed to protect the gullible. DFLer: Target is radically anti-gay and anti-immigrant! ME: Er, how do you figure? \u00a0Target has been the most pro-gay corporation in town! \u00a0They even sponsor the “pride” parade. DFLer: Because they gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954","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=12954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}