{"id":73588,"date":"2020-03-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73588"},"modified":"2020-03-17T06:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:37:19","slug":"fact-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73588","title":{"rendered":"Fact Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dan Crenshaw on the &#8220;why&#8221; that our media just can&#8217;t seem to bring itself to put out there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scoring cheap political points is easy, but also dishonest. In the US, our tests for coronavirus have been delayed and difficult to get. We recently addressed the problem by loosening regulations. <br><br>But why\u2019d it take so long? Who is really to blame?<br><br>WATCH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rYjhWNe6PG\">pic.twitter.com\/rYjhWNe6PG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanCrenshaw\/status\/1238528719955861505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Crenshaw needs to become a governor or Senator, and start spooling up to run for President.   He is almost literally the character I had in mind in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=12\">this 2005 serial that seems increasingly timely today<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Crenshaw on the &#8220;why&#8221; that our media just can&#8217;t seem to bring itself to put out there: Scoring cheap political points is easy, but also dishonest. In the US, our tests for coronavirus have been delayed and difficult to get. We recently addressed the problem by loosening regulations. But why\u2019d it take so long? [&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-73588","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\/73588","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=73588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73589,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73588\/revisions\/73589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}