{"id":4245,"date":"2009-02-20T06:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2009-02-20T06:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:15:48","slug":"see-if-you-can-spot-the-funny-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4245","title":{"rendered":"See If You Can Spot The Funny Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Schmelzer, writing for the <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/27057\/huffpost-if-its-on-the-internet-bachmann-believes-it\">barks on command<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It occurs to me that there is a rather simple pattern to [Rep. Michele] Bachmann\u2019s belief system, \u201d writes Jason Linkins on Huffington Post. \u201c\u2026[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/02\/18\/the-spectacular-gullibili_n_167954.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font color=\"#3f4f21\">I]f it was a rumor on the interwebs, Bachmann believes it!<\/font><\/strong><\/a>\u201d Indeed, on this very page we speculated that Bachmann\u2019s 2007 claim to know about plans to partition Iraq to \u201ccreate a terrorist safe haven zone\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=1364\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font color=\"#3f4f21\">may have come from a satirical posting online<\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So because &#8220;Jason Linkins&#8221; &#8211; a person so thud-witted he uses the word &#8220;interwebs&#8221; in an apparently unironic sense &#8211; says it, and <em>gives two examples<\/em>, it must be true!<\/p>\n<p>Hang in there, Paul; you might be able to get a job with <em>Dump Bachmann<\/em> at this rate.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, while Schmelzer circulates the internet-spawned meme that Bachmann (and all &#8220;fundies&#8221;) be dum, he works for a &#8220;news&#8221; outlet that thinks lefty conventional wisdom (and the <em>Colbert Report<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2268\">are unimpeachable sources<\/a>, with comical results.<\/p>\n<p>I report.\u00a0 You deride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Schmelzer, writing for the Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;, barks on command: It occurs to me that there is a rather simple pattern to [Rep. Michele] Bachmann\u2019s belief system, \u201d writes Jason Linkins on Huffington Post. \u201c\u2026[I]f it was a rumor on the interwebs, Bachmann believes it!\u201d Indeed, on this very page we speculated that Bachmann\u2019s 2007 [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","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=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}