{"id":34209,"date":"2013-02-11T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34209"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:45:58","slug":"maybe-its-just-because-theyre-learning-their-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34209","title":{"rendered":"Maybe It’s Just Because They’re Learning Their Lesson?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Common threads are noted in red.<\/p>\n

2008: \u00a0Joseph Sparkman is found hanging from a tree in a rural area with “pro-GOP” graffiti scrawled on him. \u00a0The media leaps to conclusions, blaming the right<\/span>. \u00a0It turns out Sparkman, as one of his last demented acts on earth, opted to try to use his death as a crude smear of the conservatives he hated, including Michele Bachmann.<\/p>\n

2009: \u00a0After the media publicly assumed a Republican or “Tea Partier” vandalized the Colorado Democrat party headquarters<\/span>, it was discovered that the vandal, Maurice Schwenkler<\/a>, was a Democrat hoping to smear his opposition.<\/p>\n

2010: After Joseph Stack flew his plane into an office building in Austin TX, the media assumed he was a right-winger<\/span>. \u00a0He turned out – naturally – to be a left-winger. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

2012: \u00a0ABC News broadcasts report – picked up by other media – that James Holmes, the Aurora theatre shooter, was a Tea Party activist<\/span>. \u00a0He was very much not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2013: \u00a0After a killing spree teed off by a screeching, shrill leftist political screed, Christopher Dorner’s left-wing politics pass with scarcely a mention<\/a> in the media<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It seems an odd time for them to rediscover the virtues of detachment, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Common threads are noted in red. 2008: \u00a0Joseph Sparkman is found hanging from a tree in a rural area with “pro-GOP” graffiti scrawled on him. \u00a0The media leaps to conclusions, blaming the right. \u00a0It turns out Sparkman, as one of his last demented acts on earth, opted to try to use his death as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34209","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=34209"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34240,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34209\/revisions\/34240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}