{"id":55661,"date":"2015-10-14T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55661"},"modified":"2015-10-14T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:24:45","slug":"you-asked-for-it-john-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55661","title":{"rendered":"You Asked For It, John Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: John Oliver, this month’s Rachel Maddow
\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg,\u00a0ND Native
\nRe: \u00a0Anger<\/p>\n

Mr. Oliver,<\/p>\n

The other night, during your largely erroneous<\/a> segment on oil in North Dakota, you patronizingly told North Dakotans that they should “get angry”.<\/p>\n

I was born there, and I’ve spent years watching our self-appointed \u00a0“elites” – from Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> to the documentary film industry<\/a> to, now, you – \u00a0go from calling for the entire Great Plains to be ceded back to nature, to sniffing down their aquiline noses at the notion of all those red-state rubes getting all that unseemly, unregulated, private-market prosperity<\/a>. \u00a0So while I’m not from there anymore, I spent 22 years there – so I’ll speak on its behalf if I want to.<\/p>\n

I’m all about the help.<\/p>\n

“Get mad!”, you say.<\/p>\n

OK, John Oliver. I’m mad. \u00a0Your segment, as Rob Port showed<\/a>, was crap, and you are beggaring the notion of “journalism” in your snooty, condescending attack on my homeland.<\/p>\n

So go f**k yourself.<\/p>\n

There. \u00a0I feel better.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

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To: John Oliver, this month’s Rachel Maddow From: \u00a0Mitch Berg,\u00a0ND Native Re: \u00a0Anger Mr. Oliver, The other night, during your largely erroneous segment on oil in North Dakota, you patronizingly told North Dakotans that they should “get angry”. I was born there, and I’ve spent years watching our self-appointed \u00a0“elites” – from Minnesota Public Radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-55661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narrative-for-sale","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661","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=55661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55696,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661\/revisions\/55696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}