{"id":738,"date":"2007-04-19T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/19\/whats-fair-for-the-war-hero-is-fair-for-the-weasel\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:41:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:41:23","slug":"whats-fair-for-the-war-hero-is-fair-for-the-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"What’s Fair For The War Hero is Fair For The Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, while “reporting” on John Kline’s town meeting – in which the congressman spent two hours answering unscreened questions from an audience that was not in any way vetted for friendliness – Jeff Fecke, “reporter” for the Minnesota Monitor (a “progressive” group blog funded by a group of deep-pocketed Washington liberals), editorialized<\/a>…:<\/p>\n

The Kline camp went into this meeting terrified of\u2026something.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right; after a career<\/a> that’s taken him to USMC Officer Candidate School, flying choppers in Vietnam, a stint carrying the nuclear “football”, and beating an entrenched incumbent on his own turf, Ace Reporter Jeff Fecke thought Rep. John Kline (Colonel, USMC, Retired) was “terrified” of questions from a bunch of doughy, patchouli-reeking BDS victims.<\/p>\n

So what did MinnMon have to say about this sign of abject terror – Mike Ciresi’s four-minute bump-and-flee<\/a> with reporters as he announced his candidacy?<\/p>\n

Two hours versus four minutes.\u00a0 What’s he afraid of?????<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh – they said nothing<\/a>. Doyyy.<\/p>\n

For more on Minnesota Monitor’s “journalistic ethics”, check out Foot’s evisceration<\/strike> piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, while “reporting” on John Kline’s town meeting – in which the congressman spent two hours answering unscreened questions from an audience that was not in any way vetted for friendliness – Jeff Fecke, “reporter” for the Minnesota Monitor (a “progressive” group blog funded by a group of deep-pocketed Washington liberals), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/22237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}