{"id":72064,"date":"2019-09-03T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72064"},"modified":"2019-09-03T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:13:00","slug":"crocodile-tears-on-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72064","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile Tears On A Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Channel 9, being as it is the worst water-carrier for the DFL among the four major TV stations in the market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/state-fair-political-discourse-shows-off-the-worst-of-minnesota-party-leaders-say?fbclid=IwAR3Wbjpfe6WYvleLQp_AKceRZOlGr2c3_kYAzU2OwHvjS5eJa7FR026hwMQ\">bends over backwards<\/a> to find false equivalence in the goings-on at the State Fair, during which a female GOP volunteer was sexually assaulted, goons threatened female staffers, and more mundane assaults were a daily matter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cEvery day at our booth, (things happen),\u201d [GOP chair Jennifer] Carnahan said. \u201cPeople will spit on our volunteers in their faces, people will take beer and dump it over our merchandise. I had a woman take garbage and throw it in my face last Wednesday and tell me I was trash.\u201d<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>While at the DFL booth&#8230;er&#8230;(I&#8217;m adding emphasis):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[DFL chair Ken] Martin said Democrats decided to install surveillance cameras inside their booth for 2019 because of <strong>incidents in previous years<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Presumably every bit as legitimate as Ilhan Omar&#8217;s &#8220;death threat&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Martin adds a plaintive plea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThis fair is supposed to represent the best of Minnesota, not the worst,\u201d Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota DFL, said in an interview outside his booth. \u201cWe just have to find a way to de-escalate this. It\u2019s sad that this is where our politics have gotten to.\u201d<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s simple, Ken.  Tell your supporters to stop behaving like such a bunch of f***ing animals about politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 9, being as it is the worst water-carrier for the DFL among the four major TV stations in the market, bends over backwards to find false equivalence in the goings-on at the State Fair, during which a female GOP volunteer was sexually assaulted, goons threatened female staffers, and more mundane assaults were a daily [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72064","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=72064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72065,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72064\/revisions\/72065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}