{"id":63337,"date":"2017-06-01T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63337"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:15:40","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-the-city-pages-making-it-up-as-they-go-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63337","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always: The City Pages<\/i> – Making It Up As They Go Along"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City Pages, 1997: \u00a0 Solid (if solidly-left-of-center) reporting, a keen eye on local events (at least in Uptown, Downtown and Dinkytown), and some investigative reporting that shamed the local dailies.<\/p>\n

The City Pages, 2017: \u00a0Creeping on Facebook pages, calling it “news”.<\/p>\n

Mike Mullen – who we’ve encountered before<\/a> – found a Facebook post which he opted to not only turn into a story, but one that is misleading to the point of fiction. \u00a0Here’s the headline\"\"<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s in regard to a rally on June 10 by\u00a0“ACT for America”, an anti-immigration group.<\/p>\n

Go ahead. \u00a0Read the text of Mullen’s little excrescence. \u00a0Find any reference to the NRA being involved?<\/p>\n

Only an unlinked blurb of dubious provenance about AFA referring to\u00a0itself\u00a0<\/em>as “the NRA of National Security”.<\/p>\n

I’m loathe to quote from the piece – it’s dumb enough to be on\u00a0Minnesota Progressive Project<\/em>, which is a terminal condition. \u00a0 \u00a0But this piece caught my wary eye:<\/p>\n

These cowboys won’t be alone at the Capitol. Liberal protest groups like the local Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) call ACT a “racist hate group,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, there’s a shock.<\/p>\n

If a conservative orders a pizza in the woods, and “SDS” (“Antifa”, the SPLC, Media Matters, Alonda Cano, Tina Liebling or Ken Martin, etc, etc, etc) \u00a0aren’t there to hear it, is it still “hate speech)?<\/p>\n

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