{"id":450,"date":"2007-02-13T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/13\/450\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T21:23:34","slug":"450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Ratstomping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leftybloggers served up the idea of trying to rat out Bill Donohue &#8211; the outspoken Catholic anti-defamation activist with the Catholic League\u00a0who went a long way toward ensuring Mandy Marcotte&#8217;s &#8220;resignation&#8221; from the Silkypony campaign &#8211; to the IRS for alleged violations of non-profit organization tax law.<\/p>\n<p>Learned Foot <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/someone-needs-intervention.html\">returns the serve<\/a> with a 100mph slam to the backhand side.\u00a0 Foot &#8211; an actual lawyer &#8211; presents a bit of actual law, showing that Donohue and the Catholic League were well within the League&#8217;s mission &#8211; and, hence, non-profit tax laws &#8211;\u00a0in attacking Marcotte&#8217;s hate-drenched writing.<\/p>\n<p>Foot concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Notably absent from any of these statements &#8211; incendiary and rage-flecked as they were &#8211; was any mention on how people should vote. If anyone would like to take the leap from the &#8220;bad press&#8221; Donahue is trying to lay on Edwards for hiring these freaks to intervening into a political campaign, I still have a nice big stack of &#8220;independently produced&#8221; left-wing campaign literature foisted on me through the mail last year by some 501(c)(3) organizations whose own tax exempt status would be in peril given that same standard.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but I&#8217;m sure those were somehow different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It always is.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s see how many leftybloggers fall for it, anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftybloggers served up the idea of trying to rat out Bill Donohue &#8211; the outspoken Catholic anti-defamation activist with the Catholic League\u00a0who went a long way toward ensuring Mandy Marcotte&#8217;s &#8220;resignation&#8221; from the Silkypony campaign &#8211; to the IRS for alleged violations of non-profit organization tax law. Learned Foot returns the serve with a 100mph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}