{"id":26911,"date":"2012-03-19T06:42:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26911"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:07","slug":"all-the-news-that-can-be-squeedged-into-fitting-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26911","title":{"rendered":"All The News That Can Be Squeedged Into Fitting The Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always, always, always &#8211; when you see stories in the mainstream media about conservatives&#8217; moral crimes and misdemeanors, remember two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection &#8211; &#8220;<em>When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; has never been challenged, much less repealed.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the liberal press. \u00a0If&#8217;s most likely either painstakingly stripped of context, if it&#8217;s not an outright lie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With that in mindThe Gateway Pundit notes an example of the media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2012\/03\/finally-after-3-years-the-lib-media-has-their-violent-tea-party-activistrapist\/\">jumping <em>all <\/em>over the story of a &#8220;Tea Party Leader&#8221; accused of rape.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Untrue? \u00a0Naturally. \u00a0The guy had no connection with any Tea Party organization that anyone <em>with <\/em>the Tea Party could identify.<\/p>\n<p>We have, of course, run into this before in Minnesota &#8211; during the 2010 campaign, Andy Birkey at the <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221; <\/em>ran a piece claiming that some schlub who left a profane and insulting message on the AFSCME voice mail was a &#8220;Tea Party Organizer&#8221;, notwithstanding the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10122\">not a single actual Tea Party organizer had ever heard of the guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Charles Manson called himself a Tea Partier, the media would run with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always, always, always &#8211; when you see stories in the mainstream media about conservatives&#8217; moral crimes and misdemeanors, remember two things: Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection &#8211; &#8220;When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,79],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-26911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-slander-files","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911","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=26911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26915,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911\/revisions\/26915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}