{"id":1704,"date":"2007-11-26T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2007-11-26T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T18:35:47","slug":"notable-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"Notable Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I read Lori Sturdevant’s column yesterday,<\/a> about\u00a0 AFSCME endorsing a Democrat yadda yadda.<\/p>\n

Sturdevant – the DFL’s unofficial PR flak masquerading as a Strib columnist, and whose writing style verges on Socialist Realism when writing about DFLers – was in full flak mode:<\/p>\n

But brave faces — many of them battle-scarred…”AFSCME doesn’t always pick a winner,” said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, a former gubernatorial candidate, with a touch of defiance…But the Tuesday-morning crowd knows something else — several, from first-hand experience. They know what a big-bucks, take-no-prisoners statewide campaign looks and feels like. They can envision what Coleman and his allies will be throwing at Franken<\/em> next fall…A DFL recapture of the late Paul Wellstone’s seat…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Note to the DFL Flak:\u00a0 It’s “the people of Minnesota’s” seat.\u00a0 It’s not “Wellstone’s seat” any more than it was “Rudy Boschwitz’ seat”, or “the seat of…” any of the 20-odd other people who’ve sat in it.\u00a0 Wellstone was just elected to it.\u00a0 Please quit making this mistake.\u00a0 Thanks – Ed<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

Brave, deviant, scarred faces; plucky underdogs in the face of the Coleman onslaught.\u00a0 Reminds\u00a0you of\u00a0a Russian documentary on Stalingrad, no?\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what’s missing?<\/p>\n

An impassioned defense of Mark Ritchie.<\/p>\n

It’s possible I’m reading too much into this.\u00a0 But normally, when a DFLer is under fire (and Ritchie most certainly is), the Strib’s columnists circle the wagons and cover their guy’s six.\u00a0 And it could certainly still happen; this scandal is a young one, and since Sturdevant delivers one whole column a week, it could very well be that her deadline fell before Ritchie’s scandal broke.<\/p>\n

Let me be clear on this; not saying something is no admission of guilt or complicity, <\/em>especially on someone else’s part, and I’d be a cheap hack yellowblogger<\/a> if I said or implied any such thing.\u00a0 I’m remarking on the absence, not drawing inferences.<\/p>\n

I never thought I’d say this – but I’m looking forward to the next Lori Sturdevant column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I read Lori Sturdevant’s column yesterday, about\u00a0 AFSCME endorsing a Democrat yadda yadda. Sturdevant – the DFL’s unofficial PR flak masquerading as a Strib columnist, and whose writing style verges on Socialist Realism when writing about DFLers – was in full flak mode: But brave faces — many of them battle-scarred…”AFSCME doesn’t always pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","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=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}