{"id":18356,"date":"2011-02-23T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18356"},"modified":"2011-02-23T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:06:41","slug":"dear-twin-cities-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18356","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For The Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: The Twin Cities mainstream media<\/p>\n

From: Mitch Berg, Regular Schnook<\/p>\n

Re: Double Standard<\/p>\n

Dear Madames and Sirs,<\/p>\n

Remember the spring of 2010?\u00a0 When you furrowed your stately brows and tut-tutted about the ugliness, “vitriol” and “incipient violence” in American politics, when some of you noticed some questionable signs among a tiny fringe of Tea Partiers?\u00a0 Many of which were shown to be either beyond <\/em>the fringe, out of context, or complete false flags?<\/p>\n

I’m wondering where the indignation, the brow-furrowing, the concern is over this:<\/p>\n

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Or this?<\/p>\n

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The left and media (pardon the redundancy) yakked a lot about purported racism at Tea Party rallies, especially the rally at the Capitol last March.\u00a0 You fretted and phumphered and worried about our nation falling apart.<\/p>\n

Any comment about this?<\/p>\n

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Not to rush you, but are you planning on furrowing your brows anytime soon over this?<\/p>\n

If not – is it because you are, as your colleagues in Milwaukee are reported to be<\/a>, in the bag for the protesters?<\/p>\n

Or is it because your union pressman or cameraman will break your knees?<\/p>\n

Let me know, OK?<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: The Twin Cities mainstream media From: Mitch Berg, Regular Schnook Re: Double Standard Dear Madames and Sirs, Remember the spring of 2010?\u00a0 When you furrowed your stately brows and tut-tutted about the ugliness, “vitriol” and “incipient violence” in American politics, when some of you noticed some questionable signs among a tiny fringe of Tea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","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=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18359,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions\/18359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}