{"id":65623,"date":"2018-01-05T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65623"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:05:59","slug":"carrying-ellisons-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65623","title":{"rendered":"Carrying Ellison&#8217;s Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning I wrote a piece about Keith Ellison&#8217;s endorsement of fascist thuggery focused against enemies of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>But I noticed something beyond that.\u00a0 In the\u00a0<em>PiPress\u00a0<\/em>story on the subject (bylined from the Associated Press).\u00a0 The article said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ellison\u2019s post said the book should \u201cstrike fear into the heart\u201d of President Donald Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is a grammatically correct construction.\u00a0 Almost sounds like an educated person speaking proper English.<\/p>\n<p>But this is what Ellison wrote:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-05-at-6.11.49-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-05-at-6.11.49-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-05-at-6.11.49-AM.png 599w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-05-at-6.11.49-AM-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He &#8220;found the book that strike fear&#8221;&#8230; into his enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not going to make much of Ellison&#8217;s mangling verb tenses on Twitter.\u00a0 Everyone has their moments.<\/p>\n<p>But why <em>is<\/em> the AP cleaning up Ellison&#8217;s grammar for him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning I wrote a piece about Keith Ellison&#8217;s endorsement of fascist thuggery focused against enemies of the Democrat Party. But I noticed something beyond that.\u00a0 In the\u00a0PiPress\u00a0story on the subject (bylined from the Associated Press).\u00a0 The article said: Ellison\u2019s post said the book should \u201cstrike fear into the heart\u201d of President Donald Trump. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65623","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=65623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65624,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65623\/revisions\/65624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}