{"id":3001,"date":"2008-08-05T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2008-08-05T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T12:23:26","slug":"measure-the-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"Measure The Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/madia-rising\">this piece<\/a> by Paul Demko in the <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;<\/em>, re Ashwin Madia&#8217;s campaign to try to replace Jim Ramstad in the Third Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Note the many, many references to Madia&#8217;s time in the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Forget, for a moment, that military service in Republicans is something about which Democrats are at best silent, and at worst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2006\/01\/breaking-news-kline-demands-apology.html\">scabrously defamatory<\/a> or (in the <em>Mindy&#8217;s <\/em>pages, no less) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2319\">ignorantly mocking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does this constant spin tell us about the DFL&#8217;s appreciation of this issue?<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this piece by Paul Demko in the Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;, re Ashwin Madia&#8217;s campaign to try to replace Jim Ramstad in the Third Congressional District. Note the many, many references to Madia&#8217;s time in the Marine Corps. Forget, for a moment, that military service in Republicans is something about which Democrats are at best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}