{"id":53311,"date":"2015-05-15T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53311"},"modified":"2015-05-14T20:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T01:53:02","slug":"for-heavens-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53311","title":{"rendered":"For Heaven&#8217;s Sake&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;don&#8217;t you dare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/15\/us\/politics\/george-stephanopoulos-discloses-gifts-to-clinton-foundation.html?_r=0\">claim the media is biased to the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That Gorgeous George &#8211; let&#8217;s not forget, a former Clinton chief of staff and lifelong Democrat apparatchik &#8211; is a &#8220;journo&#8221; who&#8217;s in the bag for the left should surprise nobody who had been paying attention for this past twenty-odd years.<\/p>\n<p>The real question, to me? \u00a0What percentage of other movers and shakers at the Big Three, the big Newspapers, and NPR\/CPB are, if not in the same fiscal weight class as Stephanopoulos, at least intellectually just as far in the bag?<\/p>\n<p>My educated guess is &#8220;just short of all of them&#8221;, but I can be convinced either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;don&#8217;t you dare claim the media is biased to the left. That Gorgeous George &#8211; let&#8217;s not forget, a former Clinton chief of staff and lifelong Democrat apparatchik &#8211; is a &#8220;journo&#8221; who&#8217;s in the bag for the left should surprise nobody who had been paying attention for this past twenty-odd years. The real question, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311","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=53311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53313,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311\/revisions\/53313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}