{"id":6995,"date":"2009-12-08T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:40:57","slug":"climate-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6995","title":{"rendered":"Climate Of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin appeared at the Mall of America yestrday, signing copies of <em>Going Rogue <\/em>for a crowd that drove from all over Minnesota, started gathering at 5AM, waited for over six hours, and generally comported themselves well.<\/p>\n<p>I said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/78679387.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUycaEacyU\">generally<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not everyone shared that sentiment. While most who waited were orderly, Jeremy Olson, who police said has no permanent address, was arrested and jailed after a tomato he threw at Palin hit two Bloomington officers on the stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who does Mr. Olson blog for?<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the 45-odd percent of Minnesotans who are demonstrably sane, I apologize for the State of Minnesota.\u00a0 But this is nothing new, if you&#8217;re a conservative in Minnesota.\u00a0 Their hatred deranges them; they think &#8220;my ends justify <em>my <\/em>means, no matter how dim and stupid my means are.\u00a0 If I hate someone, then anything I do to them is justified, because they are teh icky&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, he throws like a Minnesota leftist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was charged with fourth-degree assault on a police officer, a gross misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Mall spokeswoman Erica Dao said the tomato landed nowhere near Palin and did not disrupt the signing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So many metaphors. So little time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin appeared at the Mall of America yestrday, signing copies of Going Rogue for a crowd that drove from all over Minnesota, started gathering at 5AM, waited for over six hours, and generally comported themselves well. I said generally: Not everyone shared that sentiment. While most who waited were orderly, Jeremy Olson, who police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995","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=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}