{"id":47287,"date":"2014-09-19T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47287"},"modified":"2014-09-19T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:20:20","slug":"keith-ellison-and-that-famous-dfl-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47287","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ellison And That Famous DFL Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a blast from the past:\u00a0 Keith Ellison, in an interview on KFAI (a little community station that serves as the drum-pounding <em>id <\/em>of the loony liberal West Bank, and for which I was a news guy for a while in the early &#8217;90s) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/news\/2012\/10\/18\/scumbag-keith-ellison-chris-fields-debate-gets-heated-kfai\">exhibits that reach-across-the-aisle comity <\/a>that Lori Sturdevant is always demanding (from Republicans), repeatedly calls MNGOP Deputy Chair (at the time, Secretary)\u00a0Chris Fields a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, let&#8217;s take a look (with some emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ellison: \u201cYou\u2019re real stupid for bringing up your domestic violence allegations. I wasn\u2019t gonna say a thing about it. I wasn\u2019t gonna mention it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields: \u201cYou know, if you want to talk about divorce \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellison: \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields: \u201c\u2014talk about your own. Talk about the fact\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellison: \u201c<strong>You are a scumbag<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields: \u201c\u2014that you only pay $500 for child support. Talk about that. You used that money to hurt my ex-wife, who I still love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellison: \u201c<strong>You are a low-life scumbag. You are a low-life scumbag<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields: \u201cI did not spend money to look into my divorce. You did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellison: \u201cYou are a <strong>gutter-dweller<\/strong>, and you\u2019re an <strong>idiot<\/strong> for bringing up your domestic violence charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields: \u201cThere was never any.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the DFL in action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/sites\/tcdailyplanet.net\/files\/12\/18\/ellison_fields_debate.mp3\">Hear the whole thing here<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you live in CD5, bring a friend to vote for Doug Daggett.<\/p>\n<p>CORRECTION:\u00a0 I <em>thought <\/em>it seemed familiar.\u00a0 The story <em>is <\/em>two years old.\u00a0 Blah.\u00a0 I think I may have even written about it back then &#8211; to try to get people to vote for Chris Fields, who was running against the peevish Ellison back then.<\/p>\n<p>The story is old.\u00a0 The sentiment &#8211; get rid of Ellison &#8211; is timeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a blast from the past:\u00a0 Keith Ellison, in an interview on KFAI (a little community station that serves as the drum-pounding id of the loony liberal West Bank, and for which I was a news guy for a while in the early &#8217;90s) exhibits that reach-across-the-aisle comity that Lori Sturdevant is always demanding (from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,155],"tags":[252,164],"class_list":["post-47287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-mn-congressional","tag-ellison","tag-mn-cd5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47287","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=47287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47301,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47287\/revisions\/47301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}