{"id":15840,"date":"2010-12-02T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15840"},"modified":"2010-12-02T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:09:20","slug":"our-extremist-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15840","title":{"rendered":"Our Extremist Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just you remember when <em>any <\/em>liberal calls any conservative &#8220;extremist&#8221; for <em>any reason<\/em> short of, y&#8217;know, showing actual extremist activity, that <a href=\"http:\/\/newzeal.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/mark-ritchie-file-5-mark-ritchies.html\">these are the people the DFL is running for office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is regarded as a &#8220;non-party friend&#8221; by the Communist Party USA.<\/p>\n<p>So highly does the Communist Party regard Mr. Ritchie, that he has been allowed to attend an high level &#8220;not to be publicized&#8221; Party meeting in Minneapolis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the fit the left threw over Todd Palin&#8217;s flirtation with a group that advocated &#8211; academically &#8211; Alaskan secession?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ritchie and three of the Communists had just returned from the &#8220;Battle in Seattle&#8221; &#8211; the mass riots that broke out around the World Trade Organization meeting in that city.<\/p>\n<p>Though he was an official U.S. delegate to the W.T.O. meeting, Ritchie gloats that the rioting and protests &#8220;stopped the WTO,&#8221; and that &#8220;It is a tremendous victory&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the first to run this story.\u00a0 But apparently the regional media was too busy digging through Tom Emmer&#8217;s resume to bother with Mark Ritchie&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>Especially his past with groups that enshrine the ideal that the ends justify the means.<\/p>\n<p>(Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rantsandreason.com\/2010\/11\/shock-not-really-mark-ritchie-has-commie-homies\/\">Random Candice<\/a>, who really needs to attend the next MOB party)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just you remember when any liberal calls any conservative &#8220;extremist&#8221; for any reason short of, y&#8217;know, showing actual extremist activity, that these are the people the DFL is running for office: Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is regarded as a &#8220;non-party friend&#8221; by the Communist Party USA. So highly does the Communist Party regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,63,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-lefty-alt-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840","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=15840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15842,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840\/revisions\/15842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}