{"id":48172,"date":"2014-10-16T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48172"},"modified":"2014-10-21T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:27:16","slug":"for-whom-the-shill-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48172","title":{"rendered":"For Whom The Shill Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a campaign to portray his election inevitable, because the economy is juuuuust hunky dory, Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton and his praetorian guard, the Twin Cities media, is pushing hard the notion that unemployment is down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jeff Johnson rightly responds that underemployment – people working for less than they’re qualified for, because they’re taking any job they can get – is endemic and growing<\/a>\u00a0– a claim supported by the fact that tax revenues have not only fallen short of forecasts every month since the DFL budget took hold, but that the revenues are falling farther and farther behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The media, especially the Strib, is in full cover mode<\/a>, doing its best to downplay the underemployment statistics <\/a>while cheerleading the top-line unemployment figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The interesting part?\u00a0 The Strib<\/em> itself, in the form of Lori Sturdevant – hardly a GOP sympathizer – last spring<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So which is it, Strib<\/em>?\u00a0 A huge problem, or no problem at all (until December)?<\/p>\n

Go ahead.\u00a0 Tell me the media isn’t actively working to get Governor Messinger<\/del> Flint-Smith<\/del> Dayton re-elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a campaign to portray his election inevitable, because the economy is juuuuust hunky dory, Governor Messinger Dayton and his praetorian guard, the Twin Cities media, is pushing hard the notion that unemployment is down.\u00a0 Jeff Johnson rightly responds that underemployment – people working for less than they’re qualified for, because they’re taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,189,263],"tags":[318,317],"class_list":["post-48172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-narrative-for-sale","tag-mngov-2014","tag-praetorian-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48172","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=48172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48314,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48172\/revisions\/48314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}