{"id":4088,"date":"2009-01-27T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2009-01-27T06:30:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T11:30:51","slug":"our-new-passive-aggressive-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"Our New Passive-Aggressive Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strap yourselves in, Republicans across America.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll get to live life the way we lived it here in Minnesota for decades; liberal supermajorities who believe your earnings belong to government first and foremost, backed by a media establishment that portrays dissent as one degree of depravity or another.\u00a0 Oh, and about the portrayal of Republicans &#8211; remember how for the past eight years Chuck Hagel got more mic time than the rest of the GOP caucus put together?\u00a0 Two words for ya; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?s=sturdevant\">Lori Sturdevant<\/a>.<br \/>\nWorse?\u00a0 The alternatives that the opposition provides will disappear down the memory hole &#8211; or at least they will as far as the mainstream media is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we have an alternative media now (until Congress or the Administration sneak the &#8220;Fairness&#8221; Doctrine back in the door).\u00a0 And the truth will be there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, I <a href=\"javascript:launchAudioWindow(\"\/MediaPlayer\/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=4b2d8aff-1243-4da1-a9d5-4b7e4cdfcf4e\")\">talked with Michele Bachmann&#8217;s New Media director Dave Dziok<\/a>.\u00a0 He&#8217;s behind a new project &#8211; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/majoritytracker.wordpress.com\/\">The Majority Tracker<\/a>, <\/em>which aims to drop a videocam down the memory hole.<\/p>\n<p>What is the GOP doing?\u00a0 Well, you&#8217;ll find out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strap yourselves in, Republicans across America.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll get to live life the way we lived it here in Minnesota for decades; liberal supermajorities who believe your earnings belong to government first and foremost, backed by a media establishment that portrays dissent as one degree of depravity or another.\u00a0 Oh, and about the portrayal of Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}