{"id":68242,"date":"2018-10-15T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68242"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"why-we-need-money-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68242","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need Money In Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t get the media to do anything but paint Democrats&#8217; toenails on the air,\u00a0 you have to get your own media to do it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the conservative media that\u00a0<em>does\u00a0<\/em>exist &#8211; talk radio &#8211; largely reaches an echo chamber.\u00a0 A smart, superlative echo chamber, but the proverbial choir nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Wardlow did something I&#8217;ve been dying for a Republican to do for years; put out an ad that tells the actual truth about Keith Ellison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxaB3OGZ_pY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that the likes of Esme Murphy or John Cronin will never, ever allow to cross their lips.<\/p>\n<p>And it took\u00a0<em>money\u00a0<\/em> &#8211; filthy lucre! &#8211; to get it on the air, to do the job the Twin Cities media will not.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why Democrats want campaign finance &#8220;reform&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t get the media to do anything but paint Democrats&#8217; toenails on the air,\u00a0 you have to get your own media to do it for you. Of course, the conservative media that\u00a0does\u00a0exist &#8211; talk radio &#8211; largely reaches an echo chamber.\u00a0 A smart, superlative echo chamber, but the proverbial choir nonetheless. Doug Wardlow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,51],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-68242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68242","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=68242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68243,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68242\/revisions\/68243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}