{"id":42676,"date":"2014-03-27T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42676"},"modified":"2014-10-21T12:32:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:32:03","slug":"demand-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42676","title":{"rendered":"Demand Integrity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Ellison, speaking to the Democrats&#8217; greatest public intellectual, Bill Maher, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2014\/03\/keith_ellison_tells_maher_he_wishes_democrats_would_come_out_against_second_amendment_video.php\">had the following exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t your party come out against the Second Amendment? It&#8217;s a problem,&#8221; Maher asks, to which Ellison replies, &#8220;I sure wish they would. I sure wish they would.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I with the Democrat Party would do it, too.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be a sign of integrity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even with the extra context that the City Pages&#8217; Aaron Rupar is careful to note (for Ellison):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It should be noted, however, that earlier in the segment Ellison said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you have to eliminate ownership of all guns in order to get some common-sense gun rules.&#8221; So what he means in saying he wishes Dems would come out against the Second Amendment isn&#8217;t totally clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course it is.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison believes the Democrats should endorse the idea that civil rights and liberties are gifts from the government to the people.\u00a0 Things to be doled out by a wide, benificent government to the gabbling rabble they are chose to rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ellison just wants the Democrat party to reclaim its legacy as the party of people who decide who gets what rights &#8211; just like it did under slavery and Jim Crow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s perfectly clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Ellison, speaking to the Democrats&#8217; greatest public intellectual, Bill Maher, had the following exchange: &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t your party come out against the Second Amendment? It&#8217;s a problem,&#8221; Maher asks, to which Ellison replies, &#8220;I sure wish they would. I sure wish they would.&#8221; I with the Democrat Party would do it, too.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-42676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-ellison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676","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=42676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48330,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions\/48330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}