{"id":56530,"date":"2015-12-09T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56530"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:37:16","slug":"vide-the-intellectual-giants-of-the-american-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56530","title":{"rendered":"<i>Vide<\/i> The Intellectual Giants Of The American Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428052\/san-bernardino-shooting-politicized-reaction\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I caught some of Morning Joe from my hotel room before I left for the airport. The caption for one discussion was \u201cWere They Radicalized?\u201d I keep seeing stories asking this question as if it\u2019s some great mystery we may never get to the bottom of. The media and the Democratic party are working very, very, hard to pound the wet clay of San Bernardino into a story about runaway gun violence in America.<\/p>\n<p>Just curious: What discrete piece of info are we waiting for to get a definitive answer to that question? Because I thought it might be the thousands of rounds of ammo, the remote-control-car-bombs, the decision to abandon their six-month-old daughter, the contacts with terror suspects and, oh yeah, the murder of 14 people. But hey, that\u2019s just me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used to think PJ O&#8217;Rourke was being hyperbolic when he said J-school students were the ones too dumb to get into Education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?tag=muggeridges-law\">Muggeridge&#8217;s Law<\/a> is in full effect, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>Still, amid the japing about our dimbulb journalistic &#8220;elite&#8221;, there&#8217;s a serious issue. \u00a0The people are being\u00a0<em>actively disinformed<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right now the media and the Democratic party are working very, very, hard to pound the wet clay of San Bernardino into a story about runaway gun violence in America. Bogus stats about there being a mass shooting on average once a day streak across the media firmament like so much St. Elmo\u2019s Fire. The fact that gun violence has been in a decades-long decline doesn\u2019t count for much. Poor Charlie Cooke is running around like the last artillery officer on a 19th-century British warship, trying to return fire from each cannon station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cook is doing his usual great job. \u00a0But he&#8217;s far from alone on the, er, gun deck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Goldberg: I caught some of Morning Joe from my hotel room before I left for the airport. The caption for one discussion was \u201cWere They Radicalized?\u201d I keep seeing stories asking this question as if it\u2019s some great mystery we may never get to the bottom of. The media and the Democratic party are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,263,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-narrative-for-sale","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56530","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=56530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56533,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56530\/revisions\/56533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}