{"id":6624,"date":"2009-11-25T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:52:20","slug":"the-schizo-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6624","title":{"rendered":"The Schizo Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting a job at the City Pages is apparently like getting a “diary” on Minnesota “Progressive” Project<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, how would “Hart Van Denburg” have gotten to get this bit here<\/a> published?<\/p>\n

Last week, MinnPost gave controversial conservative scribe Katherine Kersten a free megaphone<\/a> for her oft-repeated views on everything from gay marriage to liberal rage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah.\u00a0 So it’s a critique of “objective” (I slay me) publications allowing conservatives onto their pages.\u00a0 Especially one that has drawn so much utterly deranged ire as Kersten.<\/p>\n

…or – is it?<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the St. Cloud Times<\/a> did something similar for District 6 conservative Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Er…right?\u00a0 She represents the district the Saint Cloud Times <\/em>is in<\/em>.\u00a0 Worth an interview – right?\u00a0 Especially given that it wasn’t two years ago that the lefty “alternative” media was in a lather<\/a> because Bachmann purportedly didn’t do non-conservative media anymore. (Although as we found in the series I wrote, she does a lot more liberal media than Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum or Al Franken do conservative media).<\/p>\n

Both interviews were published in a question-and-answer format in which the interviewers pitched softball questions and then never challenged their subjects on any of their assertions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 Now it critiques the interview style.\u00a0 Because any time one interviews a conservative, one is supposed to bellow “You Are Teh Crazee<\/em>!” until one loses bladder control.<\/p>\n

St. Cloud Times Washington correspondent Larry Bivens penned the Bachmann interview. Here’s a sample exchange:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Passage of interview in which Larry Bivens apparently did not jump on his desk and below “You are teh crazee<\/em>” excised for brevity’s sake).<\/p>\n

Just a month ago, Pawlenty joined forces with the likes of radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to endorse the Conservative Party’s Doug Hoffman<\/a> in a campaign to unseat Republican Dede Scozzafava in New York’s District 23 congressional race.<\/p>\n

Scozzafava was deemed not sufficiently conservative. She dropped out of the race.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Well, no, “Hart”.\u00a0 She was deemed actually running a bit to the left of the Democrat.<\/div>\n

Democrat Bill Owens won the election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Running against a third-party candidate who’d had weeks to mount a campaign on no budget, against not only Owens but against Scozzafava, who dumped a million into an election where she spent more time bagging on Hoffman than Owens, before bowing out).<\/p>\n

But what is <\/em>this piece trying to say?\u00a0 “Bad Twin Cities media for talking to Kersten and Bachmann because Pawlenty joined with Limbaugh to endorse someone who didn’t win yet?”<\/p>\n

Did I sit next to Hart Van Denburg on the bus the other day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting a job at the City Pages is apparently like getting a “diary” on Minnesota “Progressive” Project. Otherwise, how would “Hart Van Denburg” have gotten to get this bit here published? Last week, MinnPost gave controversial conservative scribe Katherine Kersten a free megaphone for her oft-repeated views on everything from gay marriage to liberal rage. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","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=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}