{"id":71543,"date":"2019-06-14T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71543"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:00:18","slug":"the-strib-is-ilhan-omars-pr-flack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71543","title":{"rendered":"The Strib Is Ilhan Omar&#8217;s PR Flack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This hit twitter yesterday; Ilhan Omar&#8217;s spin doctor, Ben Goldfarb, caught in the emailed act of trying to fix media and pundit coverage of the perennially-scabrous Ilhan Omar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My God. Props to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bloisolson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bloisolson<\/a> for sharing. <br><br>From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlhanMN<\/a>\u2019s crisis manager Ben Goldfarb: <br><br>\u201cDoes anyone in the team have a relationship with Blois? Someone should probably reach out to talk off the record and shut it down with him AS WE DO WITH THE STRIB\u201d [emphasis added]<br><br>THREAD <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cFx49KxZCm\">pic.twitter.com\/cFx49KxZCm<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Nick Solheim (@NickSSolheim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickSSolheim\/status\/1139204250234437634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Someone should probably reach out to talk off the record and shut it down with him as we do with the Strib<\/strong>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that this is a mystery to anyone, but it&#8217;s still a little jarring to see it in black and white from one of the co-conspirators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The downside, of course &#8211; if the DFL does in fact primary Omar, and manages to replace her (doubtful), they&#8217;ll only come up with someone worse.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hit twitter yesterday; Ilhan Omar&#8217;s spin doctor, Ben Goldfarb, caught in the emailed act of trying to fix media and pundit coverage of the perennially-scabrous Ilhan Omar: My God. Props to @bloisolson for sharing. From @IlhanMN\u2019s crisis manager Ben Goldfarb: \u201cDoes anyone in the team have a relationship with Blois? Someone should probably reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,255],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-71543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-the-racket","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543","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=71543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71557,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543\/revisions\/71557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}