{"id":64982,"date":"2017-11-03T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64982"},"modified":"2017-11-02T21:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T02:58:25","slug":"64982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64982","title":{"rendered":"Facts Are No Impediment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost too obvious to be a Berg&#8217;s Law; when facts don&#8217;t favor the Dems&#8217; argument (and they rarely do), and they know their audience isn&#8217;t informed or curious enough to check them on it (and they never are), and the media won&#8217;t trip them up (and they never do), then lying is just fine.<\/p>\n<p>But it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2017\/11\/02\/senate-democrats-falsely-claim-gop-tax-plan-will-raise-taxes-for-most-working-class-families\/?utm_term=.e3b54392b6bf\">&#8216;s a near thing.\u00a0 It really is<\/a>.\u00a0According to those noted conservative tools at the\u00a0<em>WaPo<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost too obvious to be a Berg&#8217;s Law; when facts don&#8217;t favor the Dems&#8217; argument (and they rarely do), and they know their audience isn&#8217;t informed or curious enough to check them on it (and they never are), and the media won&#8217;t trip them up (and they never do), then lying is just fine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64982","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=64982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64985,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64982\/revisions\/64985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}