{"id":43241,"date":"2014-04-29T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43241"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:06","slug":"the-hypocrisy-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43241","title":{"rendered":"The Hypocrisy Record Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1988: \u00a0Carl Rowan, the\u00a0<em>WaPo\u00a0<\/em>columnist with a long record of vicious attacks on the idea of civilian gun ownership, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCarl_Rowan&amp;ei=-xVVU4bvI6rfyQG5t4GgDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHW1vrgNVgUNGDS6YEiZXJSUxlp7Q&amp;sig2=WlgOtc_fxQoBMwaBH1qYRA&amp;bvm=bv.65058239,d.aWc\">shoots at a teenager who was in his swimming pool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2012: \u00a0Barack Obama, while claiming the GOP is fighting a &#8220;War on Women&#8221;, pays his female employees much less than his male staff.<\/p>\n<p>2013: \u00a0DFL rep Ryan &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Winkler, who routinely attacks the integrity of his opponents on issues of race, calls accomplished jurist Clarence Thomas &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>2014: \u00a0Media Matters, a George Soros-funded attack-PR firm which has spent years railing against &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; laws nationwide, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/04\/17\/media-matters-not-super-keen-on-seiu-unionizing-its-employees\/\">brings in the big guns<\/a> as SEIU tries to unionize MM4A&#8217;s underpaid drudge-workers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Media Matters has retained a law firm whose focus is representing management in labor disputes. It\u2019s forcing its employees into a secret-ballot election,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/media-matters-forces-secret-ballot-union-election\/\">which is the kind of vote card-check proponents like the good folks at Media Matters decry whenever Republicans insist it\u2019s important to maintain.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the year is still young!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1988: \u00a0Carl Rowan, the\u00a0WaPo\u00a0columnist with a long record of vicious attacks on the idea of civilian gun ownership, shoots at a teenager who was in his swimming pool. 2012: \u00a0Barack Obama, while claiming the GOP is fighting a &#8220;War on Women&#8221;, pays his female employees much less than his male staff. 2013: \u00a0DFL rep Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,51],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-43241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43241","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=43241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43391,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43241\/revisions\/43391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}