{"id":30416,"date":"2012-09-14T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30416"},"modified":"2012-09-17T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:32:37","slug":"it-may-be-an-idle-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30416","title":{"rendered":"It May Be An Idle Question&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I wonder if any of the major-media &#8220;fact check&#8221; operations are going to go the new ad from <del>&#8220;Alida Buys The Legislature&#8221;<\/del> &#8220;A &#8220;Better&#8221; Legislature&#8221; that claims&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=25707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Republicans shut down the state government (it was Dayton)<\/li>\n<li>Republicans protected tax breaks for the wealthy (it was for everyone)<\/li>\n<li>The GOP &#8220;passed a law that raised taxes for 95% of homeowners&#8221; (property taxes are local government&#8217;s job, and the 95% number reeks of fakeness)<\/li>\n<li>The GOP blocked a job bill (Er, no &#8211; they blocked a Dayton bonding proposal that was nothing but a bone for the public employee&#8217;s unions that we couldn&#8217;t pay for).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a job for Minnesota&#8217;s &#8220;professional fact-checkers&#8221;; do a story on Alida Messinger&#8217;s entire attack-PR operation.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not holding my breath either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I wonder if any of the major-media &#8220;fact check&#8221; operations are going to go the new ad from &#8220;Alida Buys The Legislature&#8221; &#8220;A &#8220;Better&#8221; Legislature&#8221; that claims&#8230;: The Republicans shut down the state government (it was Dayton) Republicans protected tax breaks for the wealthy (it was for everyone) The GOP &#8220;passed a law that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416","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=30416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30418,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416\/revisions\/30418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}