{"id":19619,"date":"2011-04-27T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T21:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19619"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:15:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T13:15:41","slug":"feeding-frenzy-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19619","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Frenzy Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Martens – formerly of “Citizens for A “Safer<\/span>” Supine Minnesota”, now with some other astroturf group that is, most likely, a re-branding of CSM, wrote a “Commentary” on Minnesota Public Radio today in re Rep. Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill (HF 1467).<\/p>\n

Here’s the “Commentary<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Here’s the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll have a piece out on it tomorrow.\u00a0 Actually, I’ve found 15 serious outright lies<\/em> – as in, statements that are 180 degrees divergent from reality – and 2-3 major logical fallacies so far.\u00a0 So much, in fact, that I may break the piece up into, well, 15-18 pieces, running every half hour all day tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The piece is that bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And there is just no way <\/em>I should have all that fun by myself.<\/p>\n

So I’m going to do something I haven’t done in years; I’m going to sound the horn.<\/p>\n

Bloggers, Tweeter and Facebookers; it’s time for a good old-fashioned feeding frenzy; a Blog Swarm on Martens.\u00a0 And on MPR for printing a “commentary” that can’t pass even the most rudimentary fact-checking, as part of what is seeming more and more like an editorial position to start pushing for more gun control.<\/p>\n

If you write a piece – a blog post, Facebook update or Tweet – about Martens and MPR, leave a note in the comment section.\u00a0 I’ll post a “Carnival of Truth” tomorrow recapping everyone’s efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heather Martens – formerly of “Citizens for A “Safer” Supine Minnesota”, now with some other astroturf group that is, most likely, a re-branding of CSM, wrote a “Commentary” on Minnesota Public Radio today in re Rep. Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill (HF 1467). Here’s the “Commentary“. Here’s the bill. I’ll have a piece out on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,22],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-19619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament","tag-heather-martens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619","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=19619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19621,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions\/19621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}