{"id":66894,"date":"2018-05-24T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66894"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:35:02","slug":"socratic-debate-minneapolis-progressive-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66894","title":{"rendered":"Socratic Debate, Minneapolis &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Woman&#8221; (probably) throws drink at conservative minx Tomi Lahren &#8211; local liberal hamsters applaud like trained chimps.<\/p>\n<p>This article by the <em>City Pages&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>relentlessly dumb Mike Mullen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fox News contributor apparently stopped and turned back to confront the water-thrower&#8217;s table, at which point a man yelled, &#8220;Fuck that bitch!,&#8221; &#8220;Fuck that hoe!,&#8221; &#8220;Racist-ass bitch!,&#8221; before asking: &#8220;Why you even out here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Within a couple seconds, she wasn&#8217;t: Lahren ended the confrontation and left the scene.The woman left standing there talking to patrons after Tomi retreats might just be Lahren&#8217;s mom: TMZ reports &#8220;some of the water got on Tomi&#8217;s mom as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TMZ also passes along information from &#8220;sources close to Tomi,&#8221; who report that this drink-throwing was &#8220;completely unprovoked.&#8221; Completely! Except for, like, 500 things she&#8217;s said on national television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That anyone can make me actually root for Lahren should tell you something.<\/p>\n<p>And the fact is (and it is a fact),\u00a0<em>at best\u00a0<\/em>Minnesota &#8220;progressives'&#8221; notion of debate runs to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One round of factoids<\/li>\n<li>A round or two of logical fallacies (mostly ad hominem and strawmen)<\/li>\n<li>A round or two of name-calling<\/li>\n<li>If they haven&#8217;t broken off and run away, physical violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But let&#8217;s just bask in all that Minneapolis &#8220;progressive&#8221; tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Woman&#8221; (probably) throws drink at conservative minx Tomi Lahren &#8211; local liberal hamsters applaud like trained chimps. This article by the City Pages&#8217;\u00a0relentlessly dumb Mike Mullen: The Fox News contributor apparently stopped and turned back to confront the water-thrower&#8217;s table, at which point a man yelled, &#8220;Fuck that bitch!,&#8221; &#8220;Fuck that hoe!,&#8221; &#8220;Racist-ass bitch!,&#8221; before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894","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=66894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66897,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894\/revisions\/66897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}