{"id":61119,"date":"2016-11-28T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61119"},"modified":"2016-11-25T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:20:39","slug":"wag-the-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61119","title":{"rendered":"Wag The Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

You want a\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em>of publicity for very very very little effort?<\/p>\n

Put on a white pointy robe and yell “Make America Great Again!”<\/p>\n

David Harsanyi points out what a lot of us on the right already know: the “Alt-Right” is to 2016 what the “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy” was to 1995, and the “War on Women” was to 2012; \u00a0a smear, pushed with relentless dedication by a media that were basically Democrat operatives with bylines, to smear the Democrats’ opponents by associating them with the a convenient, if barely extant, boogeyman. \u00a0It was something that Saul Alinsky called “framing”, and that anyone who’s studied psychological abuse calls “Gaslighting”.<\/p>\n

David Harsanyi points out the facts on what is, to borrow a phrase, “fake news”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Every major cable news network had a discussion about the importance of the [National Policy Institute – the place where the “crowd” yelled “Hail Trump”]. But here\u2019s a little nugget from the NPR piece that asserts the election has given this \u201conce fringe movement a jolt\u201d: \u201cAbout 300 people \u2014 split nearly evenly between conference attendees and protesters of the conference outside \u2014 were on hand at the downtown D.C. event.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

300 people – 150 of them attendees?<\/p>\n

150 people go to the big game warehouse in Roseville to play Warhammer every weekend with no media coverage.<\/p>\n

Four times that many people turn out in maroon shirts at the Legislature every time some liberal bobblehead tries to introduce a gun grab bill.<\/p>\n

There are bowling leagues with more people and political clout than the National Policy Institute.<\/p>\n

About 300 people? Some jolt. To put that into context, there were well over 300 people at thousands of churches and temples across the Washington area this weekend praying for peace on Earth. In this country, you could pull together 300 people for a meeting about anything, actually. Thousands of UFO enthusiasts got together in the Arizona desert last year in hopes of not being mass abducted by space aliens.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I attended the Socialist convention in Chicago, where at least a thousand activists gathered to discuss how to end economic freedom. Since then, 43 percent of Democrat primary goers have given this extreme movement a jolt, I guess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a nation of a third of a billion people, there should be a lot more crazies than that. \u00a0And who knows; if CNN and the NYTimes wave enough cameras around looking for boogeymen, then that’s exactly what we’ll get. \u00a0You create a media market for something, you’ll get…something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You want a\u00a0lot\u00a0of publicity for very very very little effort? Put on a white pointy robe and yell “Make America Great Again!” David Harsanyi points out what a lot of us on the right already know: the “Alt-Right” is to 2016 what the “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy” was to 1995, and the “War on Women” was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61119","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=61119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61120,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61119\/revisions\/61120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}