I get a lot of questions here at Shot In The Dark. \u00a0Periodically, I like to answer them.<\/p>\n
Let’s start at the top!<\/p>\n
“Hey, Merg! \u00a0You worked on a special election campaign. \u00a0And it lost! \u00a0Hahahahahahahahaha!” <\/strong>Yeah, who’da thunk it, a Republican losing in Saint Paul. \u00a0That’s not even “dog bites man”. \u00a0That’s “Dog sniffs Dog”. \u00a0 \u00a0We gave it our best shot, and we came up waaaaay short. \u00a0More later.<\/p>\n “Hey, Merg! \u00a0You promoted Bradlee Dean! \u00a0I got the screen shot!”<\/strong> Well, yeah, genius – it was on my blog<\/a> every weekend for two years. \u00a0And in the last segment of my show, every Saturday; “Sons of Liberty up next, for those of you who want your Constitution straight up with no chaser!”, or some such.<\/p>\n That’s what you do when you work for a radio station, or any broadcaster, or narrowcaster for that matter, if they depend on ratings; you cross-plug the other shows. \u00a0If, I dunno, Eric Pusey and Diane “Minnesota Observer” Gerth were to buy air time after the Northern Alliance on Saturdays, I’d give them a jaunty cross-promotion, too – because\u00a0that’s what you do in radio. \u00a0It’s called\u00a0being a professional.You promote the station’s other shows – because if they’re doing well, the whole station does well. \u00a0And if the station does well, Ed and I stay on the air.<\/p>\n Does it mean I endorse everything Bradlee Dean said on his show? \u00a0Of course not. \u00a0I’m not going to comment on the Sons of Liberty’s departure from AM1280 – but the General Manager who lets us use his air time, Ron Stone,\u00a0did, right here<\/a>, and I really don’t need to add much to that. \u00a0Of course I will <\/em>add that much of the Twin Cities leftymedia’s “coverage” of Dean was really, really bad; he never advocated killing gays<\/a>, for starters, and his “association with the GOP” is even thinner gruel. \u00a0But hey, they need to break eggs to make omelettes, right?<\/p>\n “But Merg! \u00a0You lost<\/em>! \u00a0Hahahahahahaha!” <\/strong>Well, as Abraham Lincoln said, “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just<\/em>.” <\/em>And bringing a multi-party democracy to the “progressive” cesspool that is Saint Paul is nothing if not just; Saint Paul Republicans follow in the footsteps of Lech Walesa, trying to crack the rotting facade of a single-party autocracy. \u00a0It’s a tough job…<\/p>\n “Hey, Mitch – how’s biking going?”<\/strong>: \u00a0It’s not, yet. \u00a0My commute jumped from six to 20 miles. \u00a0Which is not to say I’m not going to start riding to work, at least part-way, pretty quick here – probably by throwing my bike on my bike rack, driving part way, leaving my car at a park and ride, and biking in the rest of the way. \u00a0 Soon, here.<\/p>\n “But Merg! \u00a0Your candidate got beat! \u00a0Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Teh DFL owns <\/em>this town!”. <\/strong>In 1982, the Chicago Bears went 3-6, in a strike-shortened season. \u00a0It was a terrible year, and a terrible team. \u00a0 But it had some elements – Walter Payton and some other great players in waiting – that would, when combined with a new coach, Mike Ditka, lead that same team, three years later, to become the greatest team in the history of pro football.<\/p>\n The Saint Paul GOP, and the Fourth District GOP for that matter, are going to need more than three years to recover from decades of the beaten-down indolence that is the result of decades of defeat and oppression. \u00a0I say ten years. \u00a0Others think it can be done faster; I hope they’re right, but I figure ten years.<\/p>\n What, we’re supposed to just give up?<\/p>\n You don’t know me very well, do you?<\/p>\n “Say, Mitch – why do you still call the show the Northern Alliance Radio Network? \u00a0It’s just one show, on one station!” <\/strong>Oh, stay tuned.<\/p>\n I get a lot of questions here at Shot In The Dark. \u00a0Periodically, I like to answer them. Let’s start at the top! “Hey, Merg! \u00a0You worked on a special election campaign. \u00a0And it lost! \u00a0Hahahahahahahahaha!” Yeah, who’da thunk it, a Republican losing in Saint Paul. \u00a0That’s not even “dog bites man”. \u00a0That’s “Dog sniffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,6,5],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-20225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-mitch","category-narn","tag-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225","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=20225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31307,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions\/31307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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