{"id":48822,"date":"2014-11-03T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48822"},"modified":"2014-11-03T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:07:16","slug":"a-campaign-ad-courtesy-mpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48822","title":{"rendered":"A Campaign Ad, Courtesy MPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was listening to Minnesota Public Radio news yesterday as I was driving home from some errands.<\/p>\n

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The newscaster introduced a story, saying that politicians were jumping into their final days of their campaigns around Minnesota. She then threw to a story by MPR’s Brett McNealy.<\/p>\n

It starts with a bit of the day of the campaigning life of Keith Ellison, extreme ultraliberal and darling of the Kenwood brie and chablis set, hoofing it about North Minneapolis, doing his last minute get out the vote efforts.<\/p>\n

And it ended there, too.<\/p>\n

No word from the Doug Daggett campaign \u2013 Ellisons opponent. No word from Margaret Martin, a Republican running in North Minneapolis (and longtime friend of this blog).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Any word from anyone but Keith Ellison?<\/p>\n

Nope. Just a little radio kissyface for Keith Ellison, with a plaintive reminder mixed in the Republicans are expected to do well.<\/p>\n

I wonder \u2013 does this piece have to be counted as a campaign contribution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was listening to Minnesota Public Radio news yesterday as I was driving home from some errands. The newscaster introduced a story, saying that politicians were jumping into their final days of their campaigns around Minnesota. She then threw to a story by MPR’s Brett McNealy. It starts with a bit of the day […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-48822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48822","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=48822"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48841,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48822\/revisions\/48841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}