{"id":47927,"date":"2014-10-07T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47927"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:22:04","slug":"crocodile-airtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47927","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile Airtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scheck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2014\/10\/05\/in-governors-race-dayton-and-johnson-tell-voters-little\">notes<\/a> that this year&#8217;s gubernatorial race isn&#8217;t a &#8220;visionary&#8221; contest:<\/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<blockquote><p>The race stands in mark contrast to the contest four years ago, when two bold candidates for governor &#8211; Dayton and Republican nominee Tom Emmer &#8211; offered vastly different choices for Minnesota voters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>And what does the Minnesota media do when a conservative Republican offers a vision &#8211; a real, stark choice &#8211; and offers it with uncompromising gusto?<\/p>\n<p>They sniff and label him &#8220;extreme&#8221; and basically help the DFL do its branding work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scheck notes that this year&#8217;s gubernatorial race isn&#8217;t a &#8220;visionary&#8221; contest: The race stands in mark contrast to the contest four years ago, when two bold candidates for governor &#8211; Dayton and Republican nominee Tom Emmer &#8211; offered vastly different choices for Minnesota voters. Um, yeah. And what does the Minnesota media do when [&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":[318],"class_list":["post-47927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","tag-mngov-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47927","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=47927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47948,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47927\/revisions\/47948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}