{"id":2230,"date":"2008-03-07T05:13:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:44:00","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Blast From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s explosion at the Times Square military recruitment office is still under investigation &#8211; but, as <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/03\/07\/special-report-tracing-the-lefts-escalating-war-on-military-recruiters\/\">Malkin notes<\/a>, the left in America, by commission and omission, has long been engaged in a campaign against the military, through its most visible representatives, its recruiters.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us watching the far-left&#8217;s preparations for the GOP Convention in Saint Paul this fall have been warned to keep an eye out around military recruiting centers, memorials (downtown Saint Paul has several) and anything else with military connotations.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin also <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/03\/06\/small-explosion-at-times-square-recruiting-station\/\">covers the continuing investigation<\/a> into yesterday&#8217;s bombing; while the leftymedia continues to back away hard from the notion that it could be left-wing domestic terrorism, Congressional Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/manhattan\/ny-nyletter0307,0,3449505.story\">have been getting mail<\/a> from someone claiming to be involved.\u00a0 While in itself this proves nothing, it&#8217;s interesting watching the lengths that ABC went to (in the linked post) to avoid mentioning the <em>target <\/em>of the blast (is journalism <em>really <\/em>about getting the who, what, when, <strike>where, why<\/strike> and how?).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, watch how this coverage shakes out for cues about how the leftymedia will cover potential violence this fall in Saint Paul.<\/p>\n<p>(Hint:\u00a0 Poorly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s explosion at the Times Square military recruitment office is still under investigation &#8211; but, as Malkin notes, the left in America, by commission and omission, has long been engaged in a campaign against the military, through its most visible representatives, its recruiters. Those of us watching the far-left&#8217;s preparations for the GOP Convention in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","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=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}