{"id":41070,"date":"2014-01-15T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41070"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:37:00","slug":"divide-and-conquer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41070","title":{"rendered":"Divide And Conquer"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, I’ve been pointing out potemkin gun-grab groups – “Sportsmen for Gun Control” and the like.<\/p>\n

As Michelle Malkin notes, this is part of a larger strategy of t creating and\/or funding “moderate” groups trying to create an impression of “moderate” “grass-roots” groundswell<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course we’ve seen this in Minnesota; in addition to the phony “sportsmens'” groups (not to mention buying instant media<\/a>), the entire Tom Horner campaign was floated (or, more accurately, funded) by the left to try to sap votes from Tom Emmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lesson:\u00a0 Check every “group’s” pedigree.\u00a0 Odds are they’ll turn out no more substantial than, say, “Protect” MN<\/p>\n

Horner<\/p>\n

IP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, I’ve been pointing out potemkin gun-grab groups – “Sportsmen for Gun Control” and the like. As Michelle Malkin notes, this is part of a larger strategy of t creating and\/or funding “moderate” groups trying to create an impression of “moderate” “grass-roots” groundswell.\u00a0 Of course we’ve seen this in Minnesota; in addition to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070","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=41070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49746,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070\/revisions\/49746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}