{"id":57013,"date":"2016-01-08T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57013"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:12:12","slug":"takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57013","title":{"rendered":"Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to a “watching party” to check out President Obama’s town hall meeting on guns last night.<\/p>\n

Just a couple observations.<\/p>\n

Huh<\/strong>?:<\/strong>\u00a0 Anderson\u00a0Cooper was actually pretty good; he kept Obama on his toes with a couple of lines of questioning.<\/p>\n

For that matter, the President actually did his best to curb his condescending inner Ivy Leaguer. \u00a0Perhaps it’s because his popularity is lower than the NRA’s.<\/p>\n

Didja Catch The License Number On That Truck?<\/strong>: \u00a0It took a second for this picture…<\/p>\n

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…to sink in. \u00a0Let’s zoom in:<\/p>\n

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\nCNN has eschewed the neutral, euphemistic “Gun Safety” or “Gun Violence” for the more accurate “Gun Control”.<\/p>\n

I’m amazed, frankly.<\/p>\n

The Reason For The Meeting?<\/strong>: \u00a0Every day we’re talking – and talking, and talking – about guns, we’re not talking about the First Husband Presumptive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now it all comes clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to a “watching party” to check out President Obama’s town hall meeting on guns last night. Just a couple observations. Huh?:\u00a0 Anderson\u00a0Cooper was actually pretty good; he kept Obama on his toes with a couple of lines of questioning. For that matter, the President actually did his best to curb his condescending inner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57013","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=57013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57018,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57013\/revisions\/57018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}