{"id":24956,"date":"2011-12-19T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24956"},"modified":"2011-12-19T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T15:48:11","slug":"the-stribs-uppity-peasant-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24956","title":{"rendered":"The Strib’s Uppity Peasant Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"

One flap I missed in this morning’s rundown of the present and future of the MNGOP was the railroading of Brandon Sawalich.<\/p>\n

Sawalich was arrested last week for driving a truck with expired tabs. \u00a0The airport police grabbed and detained him, and initially moved to charge him with a gross misdemeanor that means, essentially, “tax evasion on wheels”…<\/p>\n

…before they discovered a “clerical error” that showed his tabs were six, not 18, months out of date. \u00a0Anyway – it led Sawalich to bow out of the MNGOP Chair race (prematurely and for all the wrong reasons, according to some<\/a>, and I don’t entirely disagree).<\/p>\n

Mr Dilettante covered the “story” as well as anyone<\/a> – and by “story”, I don’t mean Sawalich’s utterly mundane offense, but the media’s approach to covering a prominent Republican, which D accurately termed more a “rectal exam” than news coverage:<\/p>\n

So, Sawalich is out of the race, has paid for his tabs and is presumably going back to being a private citizen. End of story, right? If you thought so, you don’t understand the modern media environment. The Star Tribune saw fit to add a completely gratuitous paragraph to the end of his account, detailing events in Sawalich’s life that happened 8 and 10 years ago, respectively. If you want to see what they are, you can click on the link, but I’ll not share them here. Sawalich is apparently 36 years old, which means that the events in question happened when he was less than 30 years old. In other words, even though he is now out of the race, Sawalich was Emmerized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To the editorial board and, I suspect, not a few of their reporters, Republicans are like wild boars; you have to make sure <\/em>they’re dead. \u00a0There’s no such thing as overkill. \u00a0Classic example; the Strib’s <\/em>coverage<\/del> defamatory lynching of Alan Fine in 2006; 32 column inches about a “domestic violence arrest” that never resulted in a conviction, had no physical evidence, and was completely expunged, that ex-wife in question had herself garnered a domestic violence record, and the widely-abused nature of these sorts of charges – all to smack down a candidate who might<\/em>\u00a0have gotten 35% with a tailwind and without a Ventura Party candidate who made moderate-to-Republican noises. \u00a0Such are the precautions the media must take to ensure the victory of a deeply-flawed, yapping little schnauzer like Keith Ellison.<\/p>\n

There’s a message in that last paragraph — if you would seek to be a prominent Republican, or even prominent in the inner workings of the party, you can expect to have every indiscretion of your life shared with the world. So you’d better damn well keep your light under a bushel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what Alinsky preached. \u00a0It’s what the DFL – and their willing accomplices in the media – practice. \u00a0It should surprise nobody.<\/p>\n

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One flap I missed in this morning’s rundown of the present and future of the MNGOP was the railroading of Brandon Sawalich. Sawalich was arrested last week for driving a truck with expired tabs. \u00a0The airport police grabbed and detained him, and initially moved to charge him with a gross misdemeanor that means, essentially, “tax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956","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=24956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24958,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956\/revisions\/24958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}