{"id":61046,"date":"2016-11-22T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61046"},"modified":"2016-11-21T07:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T13:54:49","slug":"shut-up-all-you-ignorant-uncivil-tribalists-he-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61046","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shut Up, All You Ignorant, Uncivil Tribalists!&#8221;, He Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Minnesota Public Radio<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, &#8220;tribal&#8221; peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Norm Orenstein<\/p>\n<p>MPR,<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday you played\u00a0an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2016\/11\/18\/mpr_news_presents\">interview with Norman\u00a0Orenstein on your\u00a0noon show<\/a>. \u00a0 Orenstein is to academia what Lori Sturdevant is to journalism; a myopic scold for a very defined ideology, who after a career of being hailed as a genius by his own echo chamber can not possibly conceive of there being a rational alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Orenstein&#8217;s major points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The national conversation is getting very uncivil &#8211; due to the right. \u00a0Not the left.<\/li>\n<li>While he used to support the electoral college, now he does not.<\/li>\n<li>The conservative alternative media &#8211; Orenstein calls it &#8220;tribal&#8221; media, in the tone of a British grand\u00e9e in colonial India &#8211; is at fault for everything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, MPR. \u00a0We don&#8217;t get enough of that from the local media.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, MPR? \u00a0Why did you book Orenstein? \u00a0Self-affirmation therapy for your distraught audience?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Minnesota Public Radio From: Mitch Berg, &#8220;tribal&#8221; peasant Re: \u00a0Norm Orenstein MPR, Last Friday you played\u00a0an interview with Norman\u00a0Orenstein on your\u00a0noon show. \u00a0 Orenstein is to academia what Lori Sturdevant is to journalism; a myopic scold for a very defined ideology, who after a career of being hailed as a genius by his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61046","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=61046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61075,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61046\/revisions\/61075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}