{"id":45907,"date":"2014-07-25T07:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45907"},"modified":"2014-07-25T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:35:12","slug":"a-watchdog-that-only-barks-at-mailmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45907","title":{"rendered":"A Watchdog That Only Barks At Mailmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They completely missed the real scandal, which is President Obama\u2019s imperial disregard for the law, but at least <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/gazette-opinion\/gazette-opinion-obama-earned-the-low-ratings\/article_f7f51100-0eb8-5726-922f-b1bf460fcf87.html\">this is a step in the right direction<\/a>. Sorry about the annoying survey pop-up, no wonder nobody reads that newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Gun-running to Mexico and refusing to enforce the borders don\u2019t bother the editors. Closing the ocean is no problem. Targeting Americans for drone strikes is fine. But sneak a peek at a journalist\u2019s email and they turn on you like savages.<\/p>\n<p>Better late than never.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it&#8217;s hard to come up with even a short list of things that&#8217;ve disgusted me about this administration, and about this country during this administration, but on the very short list would have to be the fact that the media only act like watchdogs when the media, itself, is affected.<\/p>\n<p>There needs to be in accounting for that, someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: They completely missed the real scandal, which is President Obama\u2019s imperial disregard for the law, but at least this is a step in the right direction. Sorry about the annoying survey pop-up, no wonder nobody reads that newspaper. Gun-running to Mexico and refusing to enforce the borders don\u2019t bother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45907","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=45907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45910,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45907\/revisions\/45910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}