{"id":51892,"date":"2015-03-09T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51892"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:27:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:27:03","slug":"track-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51892","title":{"rendered":"Track Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is walking in Fort Snelling State Park, scouting his bike commuting routes. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Avery LIBRELLE rides past on a recumbent bike; large orange flag flutters above, and bright strobe lights on front and rear repeatedly flash. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Haha, Merg! \u00a0You wingnuts are all hopped up over Benjamin Netanyahu and his speech. \u00a0 But he&#8217;s lying.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0How do you figure?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0He predicted Iran would have the bomb by 1999.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0Maybe that&#8217;s the information he had. \u00a0And maybe he was trying to stir some action on a subject that is of great importance to Israel &#8211; the idea of a country that continuously publicly pines for Israel&#8217;s extinction and death to all Jews getting nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0He <em>lied<\/em>, Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0He said something that turned out not to be true. \u00a0If you can prove he intended to decieve, sure, then it was a lie. \u00a0If not, then it was an error.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Either way he completely blew his credibility!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0So if a leader ever gets anything wrong, it destroys his credibility forever?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Absolutely!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0OK, glad we have that established. \u00a0So, do you remember this diagram?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/business\/unemployment-predictions\/images\/ezrachart3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Obama&#8217;s prediction for unemployment rates if we just invested trillions of dollars in, as it eventually turned out, giving cash to big banks. \u00a0He was completely wrong. \u00a0So &#8211; does that destroy his credibility?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0You&#8217;re a racist and you hate women.<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; can you give me a push up the hill? \u00a0I have to get to a candle-sniffing.<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is walking in Fort Snelling State Park, scouting his bike commuting routes. \u00a0\u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE rides past on a recumbent bike; large orange flag flutters above, and bright strobe lights on front and rear repeatedly flash. \u00a0 LIBRELLE: \u00a0Haha, Merg! \u00a0You wingnuts are all hopped up over Benjamin Netanyahu and his speech. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-51892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892","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=51892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51898,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892\/revisions\/51898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}