{"id":66732,"date":"2018-05-04T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66732"},"modified":"2018-05-03T21:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T02:56:31","slug":"nick-coleman-still-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66732","title":{"rendered":"Nick Coleman:  Still A Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66723\">an excellent Strib piece about my friend Sarah Cade<\/a> &#8211; a liberal, millennial, biracial, female &#8220;gun nut&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting story, and one that has to be terrifying Big Left, ina<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/students-walk-out-of-school-nationwide-i\">smuch as millennials are more likely to be pro-gun<\/a> than anti (even after a few months of\u00a0 puffing up David &#8220;Boss&#8221; Hogg).<\/p>\n<p>And who should sound off in his sclerotic, concussed manner than our old pal Nick &#8220;The Monkey&#8221; Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman &#8211; former &#8220;big cheese&#8221;f and the only liberal columnist too dumb and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/004997.html\">expensive<\/a> to be kept on at the\u00a0<em>Strib<\/em>, ever &#8211; turned his rheumy, sheets-to-the-windy eye to the piece with the same even handed logic that made him every blogger&#8217;s favorite kick-toy from 2002 until&#8230;well, until he pretty much disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Coleman-Tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Coleman-Tweet-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"548\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, thanks, Nick.\u00a0 Your opinion is worth &#8211; well, pretty much the same as the last ten years worth of your career prospects, ever since you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1624\">graduated from &#8220;Moronic Clown&#8221; to &#8220;Turbo Clown&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I linked to an excellent Strib piece about my friend Sarah Cade &#8211; a liberal, millennial, biracial, female &#8220;gun nut&#8221;. It&#8217;s an interesting story, and one that has to be terrifying Big Left, inasmuch as millennials are more likely to be pro-gun than anti (even after a few months of\u00a0 puffing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,130],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-66732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-tc-media-bias","tag-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66732","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=66732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66734,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66732\/revisions\/66734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}