{"id":3839,"date":"2008-12-19T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T13:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T17:20:53","slug":"arent-we-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3839","title":{"rendered":"Aren’t We All?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach at MNPublius is a giddy as a little girl<\/a> over Katherine Kersten’s exit from the Strib<\/em>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sad to see Coleman go, but (sorry Nick) if it means Kersten gets the ax, I\u2019d dump him everyday of the week and twice on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You hate dissent and disagreement that <\/em>much?<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

By the way, I hope the Strib plans on having at least one conservative voice in their paper. I just hope its not a race baiting lunatic like Kersten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s take a step back.<\/p>\n

From 2000 through about 2007, John McCain was, for umpteen million Democrats, “the ONLY Republican I’d vote for<\/em>” and “the ONLY rational Republican<\/em>“. That comity lasted until he was a contender, when he became “just like Bush”, “extremist” and “ultra-right”. To Democrats, the only good Republicans are either irrelevant or indistinguishable from Democrats.<\/p>\n

So I’ll make you this guarantee; in the (unlikely) event that the Strib <\/em>hires another conservative columnist, no matter how acceptable local lefties would have found him or her <\/em>Twin Cities lefties might find that conservative today, once that person got into print, he or she would become the dumbest, craziest, most “extremist” writer they could think of at the moment.<\/p>\n

In other words; when they actually matter in terms of influencing policy, every <\/em>Republican, no matter how cerebral (and remember, Kersten’s background is mostly academic; she’s no talk radio brawler) becomes a “race baiting lunatic”.
\nNext up – Brian Lambert’s piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zach at MNPublius is a giddy as a little girl over Katherine Kersten’s exit from the Strib: I\u2019m sad to see Coleman go, but (sorry Nick) if it means Kersten gets the ax, I\u2019d dump him everyday of the week and twice on Tuesday. You hate dissent and disagreement that much? Wow. By the way, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","tag-brian-lambert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","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=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53010,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/53010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}