{"id":39755,"date":"2013-11-12T06:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39755"},"modified":"2013-11-12T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T12:37:04","slug":"stupid-or-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39755","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Or Lying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moms Want Action is, apparently, a national thing.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; &#8220;Think&#8221; Progress, the national left borg site, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/11\/11\/think-progress-on-guns-lying-lazy-or-both\/\">claimed to be onto something<\/a>; a photo of gunnies intimidating a Moms Want Action meeting in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Think_Progress_does_neither.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"516\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, what have we told you before?\u00a0 Whenever the left says anything about guns (and, pretty much, everything else)?<\/p>\n<p>Distrust, then verify.<\/p>\n<p>Then, almost without fail, distrust some more.<\/p>\n<p>Because what the group looked like depended on the angle; what from one angle could be teased into looking like a group aggressively intimidating was, from the actual <em>intended <\/em>angle, a group portrait:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Moms_Demand_Propaganda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That sums it up well.<\/p>\n<p>Any anti-gun-rights voices, whether activists, media (ptr) or punditry, will be presumed either liars or misinformed until proven otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>And they are almost never proven otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moms Want Action is, apparently, a national thing. Who knew? Anyway &#8211; &#8220;Think&#8221; Progress, the national left borg site, claimed to be onto something; a photo of gunnies intimidating a Moms Want Action meeting in Texas. Now, what have we told you before?\u00a0 Whenever the left says anything about guns (and, pretty much, everything else)? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755","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=39755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39758,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755\/revisions\/39758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}