{"id":30036,"date":"2012-08-31T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30036"},"modified":"2012-08-31T06:58:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:58:56","slug":"the-leftys-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30036","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal&#8217;s Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, for all of its vaunted excellence in the field of journalism, really is just a bunch of bumbling Barney Fifes who stumble into controversies completely obliviously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or they\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>as excellent as their, er, press claims they are, and they knew full well what they were doing when they put this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/sites\/all\/files\/images\/NYT%20Ryan.img_assist_custom-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Paul Ryan, Son of Satan&#8221;, on their front page.<\/p>\n<p>Me? \u00a0I have faith in the\u00a0<em>NYTimes&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>vaunted intelligence. \u00a0Just like\u00a0<em>Newsweak&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;Crazy Michele Bachmann&#8221; cover last year, they knew exactly what they were doing, and the media is acting as Barack Obama&#8217;s Praetorian Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Question: \u00a0Wonder if this&#8217;ll make it on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;On The Media&#8221; this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>Additional Observation: \u00a0The most blatantly cheerleader-y coverage of the convention for the Democrats this year was NPR. \u00a0They were more baldfaced about it than I&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either the\u00a0New York Times, for all of its vaunted excellence in the field of journalism, really is just a bunch of bumbling Barney Fifes who stumble into controversies completely obliviously&#8230; &#8230;or they\u00a0are\u00a0as excellent as their, er, press claims they are, and they knew full well what they were doing when they put this&#8230; &#8230;&#8221;Paul Ryan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036","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=30036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30039,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions\/30039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}