{"id":46331,"date":"2014-08-12T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46331"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T17:43:24","slug":"flushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46331","title":{"rendered":"Swirling About The Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to indulge in <em>schadenfreud.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m only human.<\/p>\n<p>Arbitron numbers are in for the Fargo-Moorhead area &#8211; and the two big lib-talk hosts at KFGO (which is sort of the WCCO of the Fargo metro area) are sucking fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Heitkamp is off sharply, <a href=\"http:\/\/sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/latest-ratings-show-continued-slide-left-wing-talkers-joel-heitkamp-mike-mcfeely\/?utm_content=buffer7ff76&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">according to Rob Port<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But even more sweet?\u00a0 Mike McFeely &#8211; the sportscaster turned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31167\">incompetent\u00a0<\/a>liberal talking head &#8211; is sucking pond water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conservative talk thrives in liberal bastions like the Twin Cities, Chicago and LA &#8211; as a contrarian Jeremiah, and a rallying point for the areas beleaguered conservatives.\u00a0 You&#8217;d think, orthagonally, that liberal talk would work for the same reasons in relatively conservative places like Fargo (although Fargo is the most liberal major city in North Dakota).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I guess not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to indulge in schadenfreud.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m only human. Arbitron numbers are in for the Fargo-Moorhead area &#8211; and the two big lib-talk hosts at KFGO (which is sort of the WCCO of the Fargo metro area) are sucking fumes. Joel Heitkamp is off sharply, according to Rob Port.\u00a0 But even more sweet?\u00a0 Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46331","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=46331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46354,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46331\/revisions\/46354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}