{"id":47060,"date":"2014-09-11T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47060"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:05","slug":"they-know-what-matters-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47060","title":{"rendered":"They Know What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Cities&#8217; media all atwitter over over a candidate &#8211; GOP, naturally &#8211; allegedly hanky-pankying with a realtor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=25707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25707\" title=\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png 320w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s NEWS, dammit!<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativeminnesotans.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/fisking-daytons-humphrey-school-lecture.html\">Governor Dayton&#8217;s mental health<\/a>, Rep. Ryan Winkler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/25\/ryan-winkler-uncle-thomas_n_3497973.html\">racism<\/a>, Senator Sandy Pappas&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=966\">support for terrorists<\/a>, Rep. Phyllis Kahn&#8217;s attempts at voter suppression (no, not <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=0CB4QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minnpost.com%2Fpolitical-agenda%2F2014%2F06%2Fphyllis-kahn-cries-foul-when-many-somali-absentee-voters-register-same-mail&amp;ei=HIwRVKP0DtauyAS67YHABw&amp;usg=AFQjCNF_ak4EDIJwvSSa-9Avyg2Ecxrugw&amp;sig2=UxujjCdMVvKmoaxoiLtpAA&amp;bvm=bv.74894050,d.aWw\">in DFL terms<\/a>, the <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=0CB4QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mndaily.com%2F2004%2F08%2F04%2Fkahn-faces-theft-charges&amp;ei=BYwRVKHMO8WMyASOy4KAAQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHFfpExk9iRmoQ-cuZNXclLjNhw6A&amp;sig2=WpLxJMKt-z51zdtWkmcjRw&amp;bvm=bv.74894050,d.aWw\">real one<\/a>), the extremely cozy relationship between Governor Dayton and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44404\">his ex-wife&#8217;s attack-PR firm<\/a>, to say nothing of complicated stuff like the effect DFL tax and wage policy is having on business and jobs around Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to see there. \u00a0Move along, peasants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Cities&#8217; media all atwitter over over a candidate &#8211; GOP, naturally &#8211; allegedly hanky-pankying with a realtor. It&#8217;s NEWS, dammit! Unlike Governor Dayton&#8217;s mental health, Rep. Ryan Winkler&#8217;s racism, Senator Sandy Pappas&#8217; support for terrorists, Rep. Phyllis Kahn&#8217;s attempts at voter suppression (no, not in DFL terms, the real one), the extremely cozy relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,189],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-47060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060","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=47060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75374,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions\/75374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}