{"id":61538,"date":"2016-12-28T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61538"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:39:47","slug":"the-stribs-new-editorial-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61538","title":{"rendered":"The Strib’s New Editorial Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allison Sherry added this opinion column<\/a> – essentially, a piece of delated-PR for the Angie Craig campaign – in Monday’s\u00a0Strib<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Incoming Republican U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis made his career as a provocative talk-radio personality who seemed to relish holding court on the fringes of the political mainstream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On any given day, he could offer up inflammatory comments about slavery or assert that unmarried women just want government to pay for their birth control.<\/p>\n

Now Lewis faces the biggest test of his political career as he must rapidly transition from radio provocateur into a full-time member of Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sherry is a new member of the\u00a0Strib’s\u00a0<\/em>ignominious “columnist’s row”, so it’s to be expected she’ll start her beat by reprising Angie Craig’s campaign chanting points – which the Strib considers “sources”, by the way.<\/p>\n

Lewis seems to get it, though:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not an expert, though I played one on the radio for 20 years,\u201d Lewis said in the basement of the Capitol complex, fidgeting with a bottle of water. \u201cIt is humbling and sobering when all of [a] sudden you see Rep. Jason Lewis on things.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms. Sherry seems well fitted to follow in Nick Coleman’s steps.<\/p>\n

In a more serious vein: \u00a0why would the Strib<\/em> be running what is basically a hit piece on the new Congressman, before he’s even sworn in?<\/p>\n

Easy. \u00a0Angie Craig is already fundraising for a rematch. \u00a0To the DFL and\u00a0Strib,\u00a0<\/em>the 2018 race is already underway.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION: \u00a0It seems Ms. Sherry is actually not a columnist, but one of the\u00a0Strib’s\u00a0<\/em>reporters.<\/p>\n

I regret the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allison Sherry added this opinion column – essentially, a piece of delated-PR for the Angie Craig campaign – in Monday’s\u00a0Strib: Incoming Republican U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis made his career as a provocative talk-radio personality who seemed to relish holding court on the fringes of the political mainstream. On any given day, he could offer up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61538","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=61538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61558,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61538\/revisions\/61558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}