{"id":62426,"date":"2017-03-15T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62426"},"modified":"2017-03-14T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T18:06:58","slug":"liberal-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62426","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

On issue after issue after issue, the left’s messaging strategery seems to have changed to “pummel the public with inflammatory, scaremongering lies; the votes of the gullible, the incurious, the demented and the un-bright count the same as the votes of smart people, and are easier to secure”.<\/p>\n

Focusing on the 2nd Amendment “debate” – it’s the one I read most constantly – the evergreen example is “Stand Your Ground laws allow people to KILL people because of the way they’re dressed”.<\/p>\n

It’s balderdash, as we’ve explained in this space over and over<\/a>. \u00a0The smart people know this. \u00a0The dumb people…<\/p>\n

…are the intended customer for that particular lie.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, New York’s junior machine apparatchik Kirsten Gillibrand has sounded off with a level of perspicacity reminiscent of Betty McCollum:<\/p>\n

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I was going to say “someone’s\u00a0been watching too many “Miami Vice” reruns” – but that’d be too charitable. \u00a0While most liberals (and some Republicans) start out dumb on the gun issue, and some don’t get smarter (McCollum, ibid<\/em>), it’s not like these hamsters exist in a vacuum. \u00a0It’s not like some NRA lobbyist, somewhere, hasn’t made Senator Gillibrand aware that silencers are\u00a0far\u00a0<\/em>from silent.<\/p>\n

Which means one of two things: Sen. Gillibrand is incurious about anything that doesn’t comport with the narrative she’s been given by her superiors, or she doesn’t care, and passing the narrative is the only goal.<\/p>\n

I’m inclined to think “b”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On issue after issue after issue, the left’s messaging strategery seems to have changed to “pummel the public with inflammatory, scaremongering lies; the votes of the gullible, the incurious, the demented and the un-bright count the same as the votes of smart people, and are easier to secure”. Focusing on the 2nd Amendment “debate” – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,340,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-lie-first","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62426","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=62426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62428,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62426\/revisions\/62428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}