{"id":25958,"date":"2012-02-02T05:04:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2012-02-02T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T12:11:17","slug":"25958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25958","title":{"rendered":"Method To Strib’s Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n

Surprising to see a sensible opinion piece in Strib<\/a>. Notice it\u2019s NOT by a staff writer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s by Mike McGroarty, a PR guy who used to write speeches for an unspecified administration. \u00a0And it’s the sort of op-ed piece that pops up in the mainstream media during the odd spasm of balance-mongering; McGroarty walks through how much revenue the Feds would make if they didn’t just tax the rich, but actually confiscated every penny they’d had, starting with the billionaires (Bill Gates’ entire fortune would run the entire government for a few days) and working down through all the millionaires, taking every penny, like a power mower moving through a cabbage patch.<\/p>\n

You could run the government for a year; read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doakes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But still \u2013 the notion that the Strib would even allow this concept to be discussed in its pages is weird. What if somebody were to ask \u201cHey, what if we did that in Minnesota, as Governor Dayton suggests, how would that work?\u201d People might actually start thinking about how silly the DFL is and then all those years of shilling for Liberals would go down the toilet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s why the Strib <\/em>runs the article in February – seven months before 99% of Minnesotans start thinking about elections.<\/p>\n

Just like they did two years ago, with all questions about Dayton’s alcohol and mental illness records; they got ’em out of the way long before any voters cared.<\/p>\n

That’s how they roll…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: Surprising to see a sensible opinion piece in Strib. Notice it\u2019s NOT by a staff writer. It’s by Mike McGroarty, a PR guy who used to write speeches for an unspecified administration. \u00a0And it’s the sort of op-ed piece that pops up in the mainstream media during the odd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958","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=25958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25960,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions\/25960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}