{"id":392,"date":"2007-01-30T05:42:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T11:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/01\/30\/let-the-sycophancy-begin\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T11:43:46","slug":"let-the-sycophancy-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Let The Sycophancy Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken, it seems, might just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/587\/story\/966770.html\">sign off his failed talk show by announcing he&#8217;s running for Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Franken announced Monday that he will end his radio talk show on Feb. 14, increasing speculation that he is preparing to run for Minnesota&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m definitely giving it serious consideration, and I plan to make a decision soon and announce that, hopefully not on the same day that Barack Obama makes his decision and announces that,&#8221; Franken said on his liberal Air America radio show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s more likely than, say, apologizing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/01\/17\/mde-from-the-archives-franken-jokes-about-killing-of-gay-man\">this very tasteless joke<\/a>.\u00a0 And it doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; because the only <em>real <\/em>questions are &#8220;<em>how far <\/em>in the bag for Franken will the Strib be?&#8221; and &#8220;how many &#8220;journalistic ethics&#8221; will they waterboard to make it happen?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken, it seems, might just sign off his failed talk show by announcing he&#8217;s running for Senate: Al Franken announced Monday that he will end his radio talk show on Feb. 14, increasing speculation that he is preparing to run for Minnesota&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat in 2008. &#8220;I&#8217;m definitely giving it serious consideration, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}