{"id":73657,"date":"2020-03-24T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73657"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:28:34","slug":"serious-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73657","title":{"rendered":"Serious Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re told as of yesterday that <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/coronavirus\/husband-of-senator-klobuchar-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-covid-19-in-hospital-with-pneumonia\/5682236\/\">Senator Klobuchar&#8217;s husband is in the hospital with National Healthcare VIrus<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the statement, Klobuchar said  [husband John] Bessler had a fever and was coughing up blood. He was checked into a hospital in Virginia and is receiving oxygen but is not on a ventilator.<\/p><p>&#8220;I love my husband so very much and not being able to be there at the hospital by his side is one of the hardest things about this disease,&#8221; Klobuchar said in a statement.<\/p><p>&#8220;While I cannot see him and he is of course cut off from all visitors, our daughter Abigail and I are constantly calling and texting and emailing,&#8221; she went on to state. &#8220;We love him very much and pray for his recovery. He is exhausted and sick but a very strong and resilient person.&#8221;<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>All these years pf campaign appearances and debates and fairground ops and every other kind of contact with her constituents,  and I do not recall seeing any mention of John Bessier.  Am I dense, or is the media softplaying his existence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, for that matter their status (she&#8217;s in DC, he&#8217;s teaching law somewhere in Maryland)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaking of Softpedaling<\/strong>:   Ih this piece about <em>John Bessier<\/em>, the Channel 5 report helpfully finishes with this bit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Klobuchar said she is working in the Senate to ensure Americans receive the help they need.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds like reporter Rebecca Omastiak is bucking for campaign communications gig.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re told as of yesterday that Senator Klobuchar&#8217;s husband is in the hospital with National Healthcare VIrus. In the statement, Klobuchar said [husband John] Bessler had a fever and was coughing up blood. He was checked into a hospital in Virginia and is receiving oxygen but is not on a ventilator. &#8220;I love my husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,130,155,320],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-73657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-tc-media-bias","category-mn-congressional","category-mndfl","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657","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=73657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73658,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657\/revisions\/73658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}