Being out of office has its privileges. One consolation for Norm Coleman after finally conceding defeat to Al Franken: seeing ethics complaints and investigations in his rearview mirror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In other words,\u00a0 being out of office – for Coleman as for Sarah Palin – means not being hounded to distraction by spurious “complaints” (“Rentgate”, the most-debunked piece of yellow hackery I’ve ever seen, which Steller reports as if it were still a serious story) – which are inevitably stated as proven facts by their various accusers, and reported with wide-eyed credulity by an in-the-bag media that seems to clam up when reporting that there was no there, there.<\/p>\n
By the way, Chris Steller – Scarlett and I would love to meet you at the White Castle on Lexington.\u00a0 I’ll buy you a slider…<\/p>\n
…Whoah<\/em>!\u00a0 Steller was offered a bribe!\u00a0 ETHICS COMPLAINT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best thing about being 46 and Republican? I don’t have Scarlett Johannsen sticking her tongue down my throat all the time, demanding sex at all hours of the day and night. Oh, I know what you’re thinking; “That never happens anyway!” Well, clearly you don’t have a career at the Minnesoros “Independent”: the mere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","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=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}