{"id":67700,"date":"2018-08-15T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67700"},"modified":"2018-08-14T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:48:47","slug":"two-standards-for-the-price-of-one-for-happy-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67700","title":{"rendered":"Two Standards For The Price Of One For Happy Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is enjoying a primary-night libation, engrossed in reading results in a booth at a local tavern &#8211; so miuch so he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE has entered the room and noticed him.\u00a0 \u00a0By the time BERG notices, it&#8217;s far too late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Hey.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Look at all that DFL turnout in the primaries yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 Yeah, look\u00a0 at that.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Ketih Ellison won!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Huge suspense there.\u00a0 Hey &#8211; question for you.\u00a0 Do we always believe women who report violent physical abuse?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 What, are you a barbarian?\u00a0\u00a0<em>Of course we do<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 So Ms. Monahan, the woman who claimed Ellison abused her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: Worthless lying whore.<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 So&#8230;women who claim abuse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Above reproach.<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Women who claim abuse by Keith Ellison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Filthy trollop!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 &#8230;or Al Franken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Vile harridan!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 &#8230;Garrison Keillor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Two-bit crack whore!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 &#8230; women making claims against men in general?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Absolute moral authority.\u00a0 #MeToo<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Women accusing prominent Democrats<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Wretched filth.<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0Huh.\u00a0 \u00a0Gotcha.\u00a0 Hey &#8211; did Paul Wellstone just walk in?<\/p>\n<p><em>BERG slips away as LIBRELLE looks around.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is enjoying a primary-night libation, engrossed in reading results in a booth at a local tavern &#8211; so miuch so he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE has entered the room and noticed him.\u00a0 \u00a0By the time BERG notices, it&#8217;s far too late. LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg! BERG:\u00a0 Hey. LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Look at all that DFL turnout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67700","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=67700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67701,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67700\/revisions\/67701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}