{"id":539,"date":"2007-03-07T15:42:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T21:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/open-letter-to-rep-john-kline\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:21:17","slug":"open-letter-to-rep-john-kline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Rep. John Kline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Kline,<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not a constituent of yours, Learned Foot is.\u00a0 And I gotta go along with the Foot on this one.\u00a0 He&#8217;s talking about the gabbling cretins that are continually occupying your office, demanding &#8220;dialog&#8221;, soaking up your staff&#8217;s time and polite ministrations, streetwalking in front of a carful of partisan-media johns.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8211; give &#8217;em what they want.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/memo-to-john-kline-have-damn-town-hall.html\">Or as Foot says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0I say do it. Hold that town hall meeting they keep demanding. Get these freaks to talk &#8211; on tape (and it wouldn&#8217;t be hard since they do tend to love the sound of their own voices). Just let them yammer on and on. And then, make sure everyone gets a chance to see them for the vacant narcissistic eliminationists they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lest anyone think that Rep. Kline is dealing with rational people here, Foot excerpts a clip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;If Iran would drop a nuclear bomb on Israel, I would ask myself if Israel had it coming, and I would say they did.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Represenative Kline, here&#8217;s what you should do:\u00a0 have the forum.\u00a0 And make sure you invite every conservative blogger you can find, especially those with video cameras.\u00a0\u00a0 Have a staffer bring a wireless router in from home.\u00a0 Let us videotape the proceedings, and liveblog &#8217;em, and make sure the exact nature of the creeping cretinism you and your staff face is on full display (as opposed to the gauzy, earnest soft-focus that the Strib presents them in).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shine the light on the cockroaches, Representative Kline.\u00a0 Hell, for that opportunity, I&#8217;d take the day off from work.<\/p>\n<p>Have your people call my people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Kline, While I&#8217;m not a constituent of yours, Learned Foot is.\u00a0 And I gotta go along with the Foot on this one.\u00a0 He&#8217;s talking about the gabbling cretins that are continually occupying your office, demanding &#8220;dialog&#8221;, soaking up your staff&#8217;s time and polite ministrations, streetwalking in front of a carful of partisan-media johns. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-war-on-terror","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33681,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/33681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}