{"id":29324,"date":"2012-08-01T05:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29324"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:30:03","slug":"top-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29324","title":{"rendered":"Top Billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DFLers are whining because Kurt Bills &#8211; GOP-endrosed US Senate candidate &#8211; released an ad that paid homage to an ad that Paul Wellstone ran during his first campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Bills:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-NuxSDkEzo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Wellstone&#8217;s ad:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NbmMlTsKo30\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pretty much a shot-by-shot remake, if you leave out the whole &#8220;liberty versus onerous socialism&#8221; bit, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Many liberals are outraged to the point of losing bodily functions and popping blood vessels in their brains over this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s address some of their arguments:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t parody Wellstone&#8221;<\/strong>: Why? \u00a0For starters, it wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;parody&#8221; &#8211; it was a completely respectful homage, coming from a candidate with\u00a0different\u00a0political beliefs than Wellstone (thank God) but\u00a0\u00a0a very similar political challenge; upset an incumbent who is an overwhelming favorite with boundless resources (Bills has one additional challenge &#8211; a media that was in the bag for Wellstone, but will work even more tirelessly as Klobuchar&#8217;s Praetorian Guard than for most DFLers; she&#8217;s the daughter of one of their own, long-time <em>Strib <\/em>columnist Jim Klobuchar).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;What would you think if the left mistreated the memories of <em>your <\/em>heroes?&#8221;:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right, because the left never parodied Reagan and every other conservative that ever got into a position to change things for the better. \u00a0Sometimes with intense, gratuitous cruelty, especially in Reagan&#8217;s case (don&#8217;t make me break out the list of libs who cracked Alzheimers jokes) unlike Bills&#8217; treatment of Wellstone.<\/p>\n<p>Objections overruled.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By the way &#8211; nobody parodied Wellstone&#8217;s demise like the left itself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-bmmpoDndw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DFLers are whining because Kurt Bills &#8211; GOP-endrosed US Senate candidate &#8211; released an ad that paid homage to an ad that Paul Wellstone ran during his first campaign. Here&#8217;s Bills: Here&#8217;s Wellstone&#8217;s ad: Pretty much a shot-by-shot remake, if you leave out the whole &#8220;liberty versus onerous socialism&#8221; bit, huh? Many liberals are outraged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,2],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-29324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-minnesota-politics","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29324","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=29324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76174,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29324\/revisions\/76174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}