{"id":58382,"date":"2016-04-14T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58382"},"modified":"2016-04-13T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T12:30:47","slug":"open-letter-to-samantha-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58382","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Samantha Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Samantha Bee, Overpromoted Woman\u00a0With LibFluff Show<br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Inequity<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Bee,<\/p>\n<p>It is easier to buy either a gun\u00a0<em>or\u00a0<\/em>get an abortion\u00a0<em>or\u00a0<\/em>register to vote <em>or\u00a0<\/em>buy methamphetamine\u00a0than it is to put a show on cable entitled, say, &#8220;Full Frontal With Mitch Bee&#8221;. \u00a0Because you own that trademark. \u00a0It&#8217;s \u00a0your, um, &#8220;intellectual&#8221; property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/433972\/vox-and-samantha-bee-ignore-markets-favor-gun-propaganda\">Kind of like the NRA Eagle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal &#8220;alt&#8221;-media; actually as dumb as the left thinks talk radio is.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>(Well, not\u00a0<em>quite<\/em> all. \u00a0Remember when everyone was saying John Oliver was the greatest thing since Michael Moore? \u00a0 \u00a0Brilliant, incisive, yadda yadda? \u00a0I watched his famous &#8220;expose&#8221; on Donald Trump. \u00a0And the big, marquee point that was the conclusion to the whooooooole buildup? \u00a0 The most damning thing they had on Trump, one of the most damnable people in modern American life? \u00a0His family&#8217;s original name was &#8220;Drumpf&#8221;. \u00a0That&#8217;s it. \u00a0I want that 25 minutes of my life back).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Samantha Bee, Overpromoted Woman\u00a0With LibFluff Show From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: \u00a0Inequity Ms. Bee, It is easier to buy either a gun\u00a0or\u00a0get an abortion\u00a0or\u00a0register to vote or\u00a0buy methamphetamine\u00a0than it is to put a show on cable entitled, say, &#8220;Full Frontal With Mitch Bee&#8221;. \u00a0Because you own that trademark. \u00a0It&#8217;s \u00a0your, um, &#8220;intellectual&#8221; property. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-58382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58382","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=58382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58387,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58382\/revisions\/58387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}