{"id":14833,"date":"2010-11-01T05:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14833"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:31:58","slug":"ellison-ill-answer-questions-to-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14833","title":{"rendered":"Ellison: &#8220;I&#8217;ll Answer Questions <i>To The Press<\/i>&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Ellison crashes the Minnesota Majority&#8217;s &#8220;Election Integrity Watch&#8221; press conference.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"343\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3ClZjjCPY0w?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3ClZjjCPY0w?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(Note: \u00a0Lefties are repeatedly getting this video taken off Youtube by reporting it as &#8220;abusive&#8221;. \u00a0Why do they hate the First Amendment? \u00a0Why do you hate keeping &#8220;representatives&#8221; accountable?)<\/p>\n<p>He gets busted in a lie &#8211; at 4:03, about his appearance in a video at 3:45. \u00a0Someone at either his office, the DFL, the Uptake or one of their affiliated groups doctored an Election Integrity Watch poster to make it look like an anonymous posting intended to intimidate.<\/p>\n<p>And starting at 4:12, you can see what a brittle, cranky little fella the Congressman is. \u00a0Someone asks him &#8220;who stands to benefit from not having photo ID&#8221;. \u00a0Ellison answers &#8220;Well, <em>my <\/em>press conference is now over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re my congressman! I can&#8217;t ask you a question?&#8221;, she continues. \u00a0Someone else chimes in &#8220;You get to decide which questions we can ask?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellison stalks off the mic. &#8220;To the press&#8221;, he responds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is your &#8220;representative&#8221; in the Fifth District<\/strong>. \u00a0Someone who can&#8217;t handle a tough question &#8211; as I found out \u00a0last year when I asked him if he repudiated the parts of the Hamas charter that called for destroying Israel and exterminating the Jews. \u00a0His first response was &#8220;how many Palestinians do you know&#8221; (five, if you go back to college), and it went downhill from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Someone who needs to scamper back to the welcoming, friendly arms of the in-the-bag press when things get tough<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you call someone who takes his swings at people, and then scampers away when they can hold him accountable? \u00a0A bully?<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth District deserves better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Ellison crashes the Minnesota Majority&#8217;s &#8220;Election Integrity Watch&#8221; press conference. (Note: \u00a0Lefties are repeatedly getting this video taken off Youtube by reporting it as &#8220;abusive&#8221;. \u00a0Why do they hate the First Amendment? \u00a0Why do you hate keeping &#8220;representatives&#8221; accountable?) He gets busted in a lie &#8211; at 4:03, about his appearance in a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-14833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mn-cd5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833","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=14833"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23839,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833\/revisions\/23839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}