{"id":21769,"date":"2011-08-16T04:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21769"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:08","slug":"bergs-seventh-law-has-no-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21769","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law Has No Exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were paying attention during the Wisconsin recall (also every other political campaign since the rise of the alt-media in the early nineties), you could not only note that the left was claiming that conservative billionaires were influencing the media &#8211; you could have predicted it.<\/p>\n<p>Because you, a discerning media customer, know of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a>: \u00a0to wit, &#8220;When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So you just knew\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/noquarter\/127706658.html\">this was going to come out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative foundations have poured big bucks into new Wisconsin websites that do original opposition research supporting Republican candidates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Note to conservative billionaires; some of us in Minnesota would be more than happy to help]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it&#8217;s not like deep-pocketed liberal institutions are sitting on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Foundations created and funded by billionaire philanthropist and noted liberal George Soros have sunk money into two new media projects in the state &#8211; the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and MapLight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; it&#8217;s a <em>lot <\/em>more money than there was on the conservative side.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were paying attention during the Wisconsin recall (also every other political campaign since the rise of the alt-media in the early nineties), you could not only note that the left was claiming that conservative billionaires were influencing the media &#8211; you could have predicted it. Because you, a discerning media customer, know of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-21769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769","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=21769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33261,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions\/33261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}