{"id":13784,"date":"2010-09-23T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:19:48","slug":"13784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13784","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to jump to rash conclusions. \u00a0I&#8217;d hate to have my self-appointed betters call me a &#8220;lazy-ass activist&#8221;, after all &#8211; that is one of those things where the mere accusation makes it so, at least if the subject is a conservative in Minnesota, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>So I sent the following email to the Dayton cmpaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m Mitch Berg, of WWTC-AM&#8217;s &#8220;Northern Alliance Radio Network&#8221; and the blogs &#8220;Shot In The Dark&#8221; and &#8220;True North&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Dayton has said that he attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after graduating from Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>I called Amherst; they said they have no record of a Mark Dayton, DOB 1\/26\/1947, attending the institution.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this is just a paperwork flub on someone&#8217;s part.  Would there be any way the campaign could confirm Senator Dayton&#8217;s attendance?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, and stay dry!<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Berg<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Northern Alliance Radio Network&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WWTC-AM, Eagan, MN<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shot In The Dark&#8221; &#8211; www.shotinthedark.info<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;True North&#8221; &#8211; www.looktruenorth.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be following up by phone later today, if I don&#8217;t get an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to jump to rash conclusions. \u00a0I&#8217;d hate to have my self-appointed betters call me a &#8220;lazy-ass activist&#8221;, after all &#8211; that is one of those things where the mere accusation makes it so, at least if the subject is a conservative in Minnesota, apparently. So I sent the following email to the [&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],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","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=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47680,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/47680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}