{"id":29165,"date":"2012-07-25T05:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29165"},"modified":"2012-07-25T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T13:01:58","slug":"appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29165","title":{"rendered":"Appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we discussed on Monday, Michele Bachmann didn&#8217;t &#8220;witchunt&#8221; Muslims in government; she asked the Attorney General to take a break from handing out M-16es with &#8220;courtest of the NRA&#8221; stamped on the receivers to the <em>narcotraficantes <\/em>for a moment to look into some allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know. \u00a0Just like Democrats have a history of doing based on much less evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park takes us down memory lane:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats accused George Bush Senior of flying the SR-71 Blackbird to Paris for a secret meeting with the Ayatollahs to free the hostages. The charge was idiotic but the Democrats insisted we must investigate. Remember why?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn announcing the probe, House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., and Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell of Maine said that committees from each house will review the case based on `persistent and disturbing&#8217; reports.<\/p>\n<p>`We have no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but the seriousness of these allegations, and the weight of circumstantial information, compel an effort to establish the facts,&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/congress\/1992_cr\/h920205-october-clips.htm \">read a joint statement from Foley and Mitchell<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okay, how about infiltration by Muslim terrorist organizations into the United States government \u2013 does the seriousness of those charges warrant an investigation?<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t that exactly what Michelle Bachmann asked the Inspector General to do \u2013 his job?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, to be fair, Foley and Mitchell didn&#8217;t have a pack of deranged opponents stalking their every move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we discussed on Monday, Michele Bachmann didn&#8217;t &#8220;witchunt&#8221; Muslims in government; she asked the Attorney General to take a break from handing out M-16es with &#8220;courtest of the NRA&#8221; stamped on the receivers to the narcotraficantes for a moment to look into some allegations. Y&#8217;know. \u00a0Just like Democrats have a history of doing based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165","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=29165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29166,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions\/29166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}