{"id":30166,"date":"2012-09-04T05:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30166"},"modified":"2012-09-04T05:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:38:40","slug":"behold-the-exposed-intellectual-id-of-the-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30166","title":{"rendered":"Behold The Exposed Intellectual <i>Id<\/i> Of The DFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seen at the State Fair (courtesy Andy Parrish):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30167\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=30167\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30167 \" title=\"A15drVKCQAEw21Z.jpg-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/A15drVKCQAEw21Z.jpg-large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/A15drVKCQAEw21Z.jpg-large.jpeg 480w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/A15drVKCQAEw21Z.jpg-large-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Exterminate Christians One Bullet At A Time&#8221;. \u00a0Photo courtesy Andy Parrish, found at @AndyParrishMN on Twitter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, is this really the Is this the exposed intellectual <em>id<\/em> of the DFL in action?<\/p>\n<p>No, not really. \u00a0 Well, not totally &#8211; the Twin Cities is home to quite a few Wahhabi Atheists.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s just that after years not only of dim-bulb leftybloggers posting photos of redneck peckerwoods from Moldy Holler with objectionable signs hanging around the fringes of Tea Party rallies in Chattanooga labelled &#8220;This is today&#8217;s GOP&#8221;, but in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10846\">Minnesota&#8217;s state-supported news service doing exactly the same<\/a>, I figured I was entitled to one humorous fit of pique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note To Mr. Hairball:\u00a0<\/strong> It&#8217;s been tried. \u00a0Lots of us Christians are much harder targets than you are &#8211; and, let&#8217;s be honest, like most lefties, you&#8217;re all talk and no delivery, so I&#8217;m not exactly concerned. \u00a0Nonetheless, in the words of the prophet Callaghan, &#8220;do you feel lucky?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serious Question For Lefties:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0I know, moral equivalence is a one-way street with you folks &#8211; but seriously, this is one of your guys, at the fair to espouse one of your key anti-initiatives this fall, in the intellectual center of the upper-Midwest left. \u00a0You know damn well if it were a conservative &#8211; even one obviously from some trailer park outside Ashland Wisconsin &#8211; wearing a &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221; T-Shirt, you&#8217;d be holding every blessed Republican in Minnesota and Wisconsin answerable. \u00a0I mean, you blamed Sarah Palin&#8217;s &#8220;crosshairs&#8221; for the Tuscon shooting, for Stu&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beyond asking for intellectual honesty from you folks, or the media that serve as your Praetorian Guard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just pointing it out. . Yet again. \u00a0As I&#8217;ve done for ten solid years now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Question For &#8220;Progressives&#8221;<\/strong>: At what point does this become a &#8220;Dog Whistle&#8221;? \u00a0Or, alternatively, a commentary on the entire lefty\u00a0<em>id<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen at the State Fair (courtesy Andy Parrish): Now, is this really the Is this the exposed intellectual id of the DFL in action? No, not really. \u00a0 Well, not totally &#8211; the Twin Cities is home to quite a few Wahhabi Atheists. No, it&#8217;s just that after years not only of dim-bulb leftybloggers posting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,63,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-lefty-alt-media","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166","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=30166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30169,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166\/revisions\/30169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}