{"id":34656,"date":"2013-02-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34656"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:09:29","slug":"with-apologies-to-jesse-ventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34656","title":{"rendered":"With Apologies To Jesse Ventura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor Ventura, if you&#8217;re reading this &#8211; and I am sure you are &#8211; I have to tell you that an apology is in order.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry.<\/p>\n<p>For four years &#8211; including the first year of this blog&#8217;s life &#8211; I claimed that you were the biggest embarassment in the history of the state of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>That crown &#8211; or belt, as the case may be &#8211; has been passed. \u00a0Mark Dayton, when he was a Senator, gave you a run for your money, but it was a transient thing.<\/p>\n<p>But today, there&#8217;s no doubt.  Keith Ellison is a morbid humiliation to everyone in this state that has the faintest interest in not looking stupid:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjR0GETgGig\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Representative Ellison is further proof that Minnesota Liberals never <i>have<\/i> to learn the art and craft of civil debate; they, like Ellison, come up through school systems where liberalism is taught as the social baseline, and universities where conservatism is treated as an aberration. <\/p>\n<p>Listen to as much as you can.  It&#8217;s cringeworthy.  <\/p>\n<p>I got to talk with the guy one time, on an online talk show.  The guy really is <i>more<\/i> brittle and facile than I thought he was. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sorry, Jesse.  I mean, I was right and all &#8211; you were a train wreck.  But that was back when train wrecks were just fun rides, back in the cha-cha nineties, when consequences were dim and far-off &#8211; not like today, when the future of the Republic seemed as dire as it has in my lifetime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor Ventura, if you&#8217;re reading this &#8211; and I am sure you are &#8211; I have to tell you that an apology is in order. I am sorry. For four years &#8211; including the first year of this blog&#8217;s life &#8211; I claimed that you were the biggest embarassment in the history of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[252,164],"class_list":["post-34656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","tag-ellison","tag-mn-cd5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656","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=34656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34658,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656\/revisions\/34658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}