{"id":2563,"date":"2008-05-13T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:40:50","slug":"baghdad-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been convinced that 90% of leftybloggers crib most of their writing from about a dozen original “proto-leftyposts” that appeared on Daily Kos, Atrios and RushLimbaughtomy maybe five years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If not the entire post, certainly the headline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while that does <\/em>mean the leftyblogger can dash past the whole “writing a catchy headline” bit – it’s all been done for you, by Kos, back in ’03! – it sometimes leads to some comical lapses.<\/p>\n

The other day, I wrote a post<\/a> about how Republicans in “safe” congressional districts – like Michele Bachmanns’ CD6 and John Kline’s CD2 – should oughtta think about diverting a buck or two to the long (very, very long) term goal of contesting CD4 and 5 (to say nothing of winning the First back).\u00a0 The reason, of course, is that, whatever Tic nominee Steve Sarvi’s pluses (he’s an Iraq and Kosovo vet, is the former mayor of Watertown, and is not Colleen Rowley), barring a major “oops”, there’s just not that much to worry about at this point.<\/p>\n

In other words; nobody’s scared of Steve Sarvi.<\/p>\n

So I read “Blue Man in a Red District” this morning, and my first instinct was…<\/p>\n

…to call 911.\u00a0 The guy’s blue.\u00a0 Obviously a cardiopulmonary problem.<\/p>\n

But with that out of the way, his top post this morning was slugged:<\/p>\n

Why are the right wing bloggers scared of Sergeant Sarvi?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I thought “Good question.\u00a0 After pointing out quite clearly that this right wing blogger – the only one cited in his post – is not <\/em>scared of Sarvi, why am <\/em>I?”<\/p>\n

It’s a\u00a0puzzle.<\/p>\n

Blue actually does go on to post some information that isn’t the inverse of factual:<\/p>\n

CD 5 has not elected a Republican to Congress in 45 years. The last 4 elections, a GOP candidate has garnered no more than 26%.<\/p>\n

CD 4 had not gone red since 1949 and no one has come closer than 25% of Betty McCollum in years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, Blue.\u00a0 That’s one of the things you’re supposed to do <\/em>in politics – change peoples’ minds.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0 tall order in my town, but if Brett Schundler could do it in Jersey City, we can do it here.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind, I said “change minds”; not merely write a headline; with a nod to Blue, “Why Is The Fourth District Really Republican?”<\/p>\n

It’s harder than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been convinced that 90% of leftybloggers crib most of their writing from about a dozen original “proto-leftyposts” that appeared on Daily Kos, Atrios and RushLimbaughtomy maybe five years ago.\u00a0 If not the entire post, certainly the headline.\u00a0 And while that does mean the leftyblogger can dash past the whole “writing a catchy headline” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22224,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/22224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}