{"id":41670,"date":"2014-02-07T07:39:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41670"},"modified":"2017-05-13T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T00:01:45","slug":"journalism-saves-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41670","title":{"rendered":"Journalism Saves The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0City Pages got out there are did that gumshoe journalism that they&#8217;re famous for, in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2014\/02\/if_english_was_good_enough_for_jesus_when_he_wrote_the_bible_michele_bachmann_quote_coke.php\">noting<\/a> that this photo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=41671\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41671\" title=\"Bachmann Bible English\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bachmann-Bible-English.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bachmann-Bible-English.jpg 604w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bachmann-Bible-English-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bachmann-Bible-English-461x300.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;attributing a quote to Michele Bachmann, which has been sweeping Facebook for the past week, is in fact a hoax.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just one problem: She didn&#8217;t say it, and a version of this fake quote has been circulating since 2011<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew. \u00a0Of course, some version or another of that quote has been around for <em>decades<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; P.J. O&#8217;Rourke n<em>o<\/em>ted something like it in <em>Holidays in Hell<\/em>, twenty years ago, if I recall correctly. \u00a0If you tell a liberal a conservative Christian supports snake-handling, they&#8217;ll believe it without question.<\/p>\n<p>But this is good! \u00a0Actual fact-checking!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll urge the\u00a0<em>City Pages\u00a0<\/em>to start working on this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=41674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41674\" title=\"Buddha English\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buddha-English.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buddha-English.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buddha-English-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buddha-English-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buddha-English-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=41676\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41676\" title=\"Carter Quote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Carter-Quote1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Carter-Quote1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Carter-Quote1-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Carter-Quote1-488x300.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that we have highly-trained info-ninjas, watching society&#8217;s ramparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0City Pages got out there are did that gumshoe journalism that they&#8217;re famous for, in noting that this photo&#8230; &#8230;attributing a quote to Michele Bachmann, which has been sweeping Facebook for the past week, is in fact a hoax. Just one problem: She didn&#8217;t say it, and a version of this fake quote has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-41670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-slander-files","tag-bergs-20th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670","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=41670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41677,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670\/revisions\/41677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}