{"id":55801,"date":"2015-10-22T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55801"},"modified":"2015-10-22T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:18:39","slug":"conversation-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55801","title":{"rendered":"“Conversation” Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my go-around earlier this week with Heather Martens<\/a> – where she seemed to challenge the Twin Cities media to hold the Gun Rights movement’s factual feet in the fire<\/a> – and my attempt to send a letter to the Strib accepting that challenge, I figured it’d be fair to try to actually have that “conversation about guns” with Ms. Martens.<\/p>\n

Y’know – to let her win that cataclysmic victory of fact over superstition that she seems to think the media will conjure up when questioning the Second Amendment movement.<\/p>\n

So I called “Protect MN’s” phone number – and got through to Heather Martens. \u00a0For the first time.<\/p>\n

And I invited her to appear on the Northern Alliance with me on Saturday. \u00a0Or next Saturday. Or any Saturday – live in studio, or via phone. \u00a0Or if Saturdays don’t work, we could record an interview in studio or via phone any time, 24\/7, at her convenience. \u00a0Or, for that matter, I could come out to wherever she wanted to meet and tape an interview.<\/p>\n

She said she’d get back to me.<\/p>\n

Which, to be fair, she did, in about 15 minutes, via email, saying she’d be happy to do the show…<\/p>\n

…for a $1,500 fee. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, we don’t pay for interviews. \u00a0Nobody does. \u00a0Presumably Martens knows that asking a fee for an interview is a polite-yet-condescending way to say “F**k you” to an interview request – as well, in Martens case, as an admission that she doesn’t pack the gear to a point anywhere but an echo chamber where the media is painting her toenails.<\/p>\n

The truth remains:<\/p>\n