{"id":2762,"date":"2008-06-25T06:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2008-06-25T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:23:03","slug":"protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2762","title":{"rendered":"They Doth Protest Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Minnesoros <strike>Monitor<\/strike> &#8220;Independent&#8221; <\/em>notes the various demonstration permits that&#8217;ve been issued for the upcoming Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>This one was interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truebluemn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">True Blue Minnesota<\/a> was among the lottery winners. The group plans to stage anti-RNC events at Triangle Park on each day of the convention. According to Andrew Hine, one of the principal organizers of the gathering, they intend to utilize a 20\u00d727 foot television screen to communicate their message. &#8220;It\u2019s part digital billboard and part drive-in movie theater,&#8221; Hine says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=J7Kznmrc3o4\">a preview of True Blue Minnesota&#8217;s video screen<\/a> right here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3217\/2610516812_a67688f874.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here, the crowd, in their True Blue uniforms:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3006\/2610524414_0111ef68f5.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a fun convention!<\/p>\n<p>(What? You think I&#8217;m overestimating the tendency of lefties to think like a mindless herd? <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/24\/jon-stewart-assures-audience-its-okay-to-laugh-at-obama\/\">Sadly, no<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(UPDATE:\u00a0 I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/25\/huffpo-blogger-warns-jon-stewart-jest-not-at-the-messiah\/\">No<\/a>!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200410160003\">Really, Really No<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesoros Monitor &#8220;Independent&#8221; notes the various demonstration permits that&#8217;ve been issued for the upcoming Republican National Convention. This one was interesting: True Blue Minnesota was among the lottery winners. The group plans to stage anti-RNC events at Triangle Park on each day of the convention. According to Andrew Hine, one of the principal organizers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-days-of-adolescent-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}