{"id":31062,"date":"2012-10-15T06:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31062"},"modified":"2012-10-15T06:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:29:52","slug":"trolling-for-ringers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31062","title":{"rendered":"Trolling For Ringers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media is having its usual bout of victorian vapours over this picture.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/terminal05\/2012\/10\/12\/22\/enhanced-buzz-13613-1350094154-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This would fool MPR, the AP, or any leftyblogger.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/man-at-romney-rally-in-ohio-wears-shirt-put-the-w\">as Stacey McCain notes<\/a>, there is just not a chance in hell this isn&#8217;t a false-flag:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can pretty much guarantee that this man photographed at a Romney rally in Lancaster, Ohio, is not in fact a Republican, but rather is a plant sent out by the Democrats as a dirty trick.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clue #1: Wearing a \u201cRomney\/Ryan\u201d sticker on the back of his T-shirt. Nobody does this. Nobody.<\/li>\n<li>Clue #2: It\u2019s kind of chilly in Ohio this time of year, and the guy\u2019s wearing only a T-shirt, while those around him are wearing coats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s the old saying? \u00a0&#8220;If something is too good to be true, it probably is&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s true for photographs too, isn t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My guess is that this guy also wore a coat when he entered the rally, then stationed himself toward the back of the crowd (in front of the riser where the press photographers are stationed) and then removed his coat to expose the T-shirt, with the explicit purpose of having it photographed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>. . . aaanndd, Clue #3: No name? A press photographer is going to take a picture like this and make no effort to ID the guy? Nuh-uh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fearless prediction: \u00a0This will turn out to be a bit of false-flag slander. \u00a0This is what the Democrats, nationally and here in Minnesota, do when they&#8217;re in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Second fearless prediction: \u00a0given the way it&#8217;s disappeared from the media, they are probably on the brink of finding that the shooting at the Obama headquarters in Denver was a false-flag, too &#8211; just like the one four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is having its usual bout of victorian vapours over this picture. But as Stacey McCain notes, there is just not a chance in hell this isn&#8217;t a false-flag: I can pretty much guarantee that this man photographed at a Romney rally in Lancaster, Ohio, is not in fact a Republican, but rather is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062","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=31062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31079,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions\/31079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}