{"id":36930,"date":"2013-06-25T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36930"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:51","slug":"can-you-imagine-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36930","title":{"rendered":"Can You Imagine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what would happen if a Republican tweeted <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRyanWinkler\/status\/349555956012679168\">this<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130625-113012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130625-113012.jpg\" alt=\"20130625-113012.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Ryan Winkler, the Eddie Haskell of the Minnesota House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>And if he were a Republican, you can be sure that the Strib, the City Pages and the rest of the Twin Cities media would be giving him a rhetorical proctological exam.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 <em>Mirabile Dictu<\/em>, Rupar <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2013\/06\/dfl_rep_ryan_winkler_calls_clarence_thomas_uncle_thomas.php\"><em>did <\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2013\/06\/dfl_rep_ryan_winkler_calls_clarence_thomas_uncle_thomas.php\">write about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Winkler twote Rupar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>@atrupar I did not understand &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; as a racist term, and there seems to be some debate about it. I do apologize for it, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ryan Winkler (@RepRyanWinkler) June 25, 2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He <em>didn&#8217;t understand it was a racist term<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just let that one sit there on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what would happen if a Republican tweeted this: It&#8217;s Ryan Winkler, the Eddie Haskell of the Minnesota House of Representatives. And if he were a Republican, you can be sure that the Strib, the City Pages and the rest of the Twin Cities media would be giving him a rhetorical proctological exam. UPDATE:\u00a0 Mirabile Dictu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,18],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-36930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-pc","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930","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=36930"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75381,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions\/75381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}