{"id":2494,"date":"2008-04-29T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:35:06","slug":"whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-media-part-vi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Afraid Of The Big Bad Media, Part VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a little over a month after Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros Monitor pondered Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s reticence about giving time to regional non-conservative\/Christian media, and my challenge in turn to Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, Growth and Justice leader Dane Smith and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, I can report the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stuart Smalley<\/strong>:\u00a0 Bupkes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A-Klo<\/strong>:\u00a0 Nada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keef<\/strong>:\u00a0 Zippo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Betty Mac<\/strong>:\u00a0 Pfffft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dave Thune:<\/strong>\u00a0 While not specifically part of my original challenge, I did ask Thune several times to come on the air for some questions about his &#8220;puking Republicans&#8221; slur.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve not heard the last of that one, yet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dane Smith<\/strong>:\u00a0 We had an excellent interview on the NARN a week and a half ago<\/li>\n<li><strong>R.T. Rybak<\/strong>: Well, glorioski!\u00a0 We have confirmed the Mayor for this Saturday&#8217;s NARN broadcast!\u00a0 The Mayor&#8217;s press contact and I just confirmed the details!\u00a0 I will welcome the\u00a0Mayor to the show on the broadcast this Saturday, May 3rd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kudos the the Mayor!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And hey, Andy Birkey?\u00a0 Since Franken, BettyMac, Ellison and A-Klo don&#8217;t return my calls, why don&#8217;t you ask them why they are even more evasive around right-leaning media than Rep. Bachmann is around the left-leaning media?<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;ll hold my breath or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a little over a month after Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros Monitor pondered Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s reticence about giving time to regional non-conservative\/Christian media, and my challenge in turn to Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, Growth and Justice leader Dane Smith and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, I can report the following: Stuart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20,4],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-democrats","category-media","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/22402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}