{"id":59988,"date":"2016-08-16T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59988"},"modified":"2016-08-17T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:28:17","slug":"59988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59988","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the story of Ilham Omar&#8217;s, er, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59953\">convoluted legal history<\/a> starts to seep out into the mainstream media, the DFL is starting to do what it does best when it has a hard time managing a story; make threats.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tweet from Tom Lyden of Fox9 about a tweeted &#8220;warning&#8221; he received from the president of the MN DFL Youth:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I love this threat from the Pres. of the Young DFL. Petulance at its finest. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PRTPhvFOWk\">pic.twitter.com\/PRTPhvFOWk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Lyden (@LydenFOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LydenFOX9\/status\/765384705113894912\">August 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind, this is\u00a0<em>Tom Lyden<\/em>; he&#8217;s never been mistaken for a conservative tool. \u00a0Or a conservative anything. \u00a0 Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad\u00a0Zbikowski looks like he&#8217;ll have a big future as a Chicago ward heeler. \u00a0 Or a Mafia soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Corey &#8211; if everyone&#8217;s a misogynistic racist, then nobody is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the story of Ilham Omar&#8217;s, er, convoluted legal history starts to seep out into the mainstream media, the DFL is starting to do what it does best when it has a hard time managing a story; make threats. This is a tweet from Tom Lyden of Fox9 about a tweeted &#8220;warning&#8221; he received from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59988","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=59988"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59998,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59988\/revisions\/59998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}