{"id":3747,"date":"2008-12-04T07:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2008-12-04T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:17:23","slug":"their-masters-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"Their Master&#8217;s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many Twin Cities leftyblogs jumped up and down and chattered like poo-flinging monkeys at the Franken campaign&#8217;s claim that, according to their double-dog secret internal count, were <em>up <\/em>22 votes in the recount?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/19112\/franken-campaign-claims-first-lead-in-recount\">Many<\/a>.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politicalagenda\/2008\/12\/03\/4977\/franken_campaign_withdraws_633_ballot_challenges_claims_it%E2%80%99s_now_ahead_in_recount#69-4977\">veritable<\/a> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=8&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelmoore.com%2Fwords%2Flatestnews%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D12764&#038;ei=Qss3Sbj0K4T8Mp-2-fkB&#038;usg=AFQjCNFfKLhhASyK8g_18E33MmE8CRAS9g&#038;sig2=Wcqg5fD_g9owmiGw1-Pd1A\">phalanx<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnprogressiveproject.com\/diary\/2215\/according-to-marc-elias-al-franken-now-leads\">dim<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2008\/12\/franken-leads-but-more-gop-calls-for-him-to-quit\/\">in-the-bag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnprogressiveproject.com\/diary\/2215\/according-to-marc-elias-al-franken-now-leads\">deluded<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=14&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydd.com%2Fstory%2F2008%2F12%2F3%2F143949%2F857&#038;ei=gcs3SbmZAZzENKOF7PwB&#038;usg=AFQjCNE3OiKEEd861P-LfhmJinbjadqCpA&#038;sig2=Xu_Vju9XwYIUm50sxuSOOw\">chuzzlewitted<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=2&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2F2008%2F12%2F03%2Ffranken-up-22%2F&#038;ei=Qss3Sbj0K4T8Mp-2-fkB&#038;usg=AFQjCNF5JWaxlea3OlqDzq_H-3Af3OibSw&#038;sig2=VrzbhERwCUmYZ6ifMh8hVQ\">overexposed<\/a>.<br \/>\nHow many said &#8220;Hey, wait, this is Franken&#8217;s lawyer&#8217;s internal count, and we might not want to necessarily use this as grounds to throw another epic Broward-County-like tantrum to try to delegitimize any result that doesn&#8217;t go our way, undercutting democracy in the process?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2008\/12\/03\/4992\/the_coleman-franken_recount_why_are_the_numbers_so_different_and_whose_tally_will_prove_correct_and_many_missing_ballots_in_minneapolis#4-4992\">Few<\/a>. Very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2008\/12\/03\/4992\/the_coleman-franken_recount_why_are_the_numbers_so_different_and_whose_tally_will_prove_correct_and_many_missing_ballots_in_minneapolis#4-4992\">few<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Twin Cities leftyblogs jumped up and down and chattered like poo-flinging monkeys at the Franken campaign&#8217;s claim that, according to their double-dog secret internal count, were up 22 votes in the recount? Many.\u00a0 A veritable \u00a0 phalanx of the dim,\u00a0 in-the-bag, deluded, chuzzlewitted and overexposed. How many said &#8220;Hey, wait, this is Franken&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}