{"id":59293,"date":"2016-06-20T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59293"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:21:56","slug":"audio-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59293","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always: Audio Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Rothman of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance was apparently\u00a0on WCCO yesterday. \u00a0“Protect” MN put out an email blast for its badly-informed chanting point bots to call in – which I doubt worked especially well.<\/p>\n

\"StraightOuttaFacts\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was extraordinarily busy over the weekend, so I didn’t get a chance to listen.<\/p>\n

But “Protect” MN’s email blasts are always low entertainment (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Dear Heinrich<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mr. Rothman is one of the most vorciferous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

advocates for the gun lobby in our state. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Nancy Nord Bence is one of the most vociferously bad spellers in Minnesota public life.<\/p>\n

\n

He makes his living teaching Permit to Carry<\/strong> classes and representing the most extreme views of the NRA at the Capital<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No. \u00a0No, he does not. \u00a0He earns his living in a day job like the rest of us.<\/p>\n

This is the level of accuracy one expects from “Protect” MN.<\/p>\n

I may just listen to the podcast for the carnage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Rothman of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance was apparently\u00a0on WCCO yesterday. \u00a0“Protect” MN put out an email blast for its badly-informed chanting point bots to call in – which I doubt worked especially well. I was extraordinarily busy over the weekend, so I didn’t get a chance to listen. But “Protect” MN’s email […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,340],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-59293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-lie-first","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293","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=59293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59299,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293\/revisions\/59299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}