{"id":77240,"date":"2021-03-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77240"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"hometown-boy-makes-good-idiot-of-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77240","title":{"rendered":"Hometown Boy Makes <strike>Good<\/strike> Idiot Of Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The good news:  After hearing Ben Shapiro roasting Rupar last week on his radio show, I have to say it&#8217;s been amazing seeing that more people nationwide are learning what we in the Twin Cities have known for most of a decade:  that <em>City Pages <\/em>alum and <em>Vox <\/em>&#8220;writer&#8221; Aaron Rupar is a really terrible &#8220;journalist&#8221; and not an especially bright man (read the whole thread):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MattPalumbo12\/status\/1361721271092998147\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news:   these days, competence and discernment are less important than ideological purity and loyalty.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, Rupar being simultaneously a definer and beneficiary of Urban Progressive Privilege, he&#8217;ll never be held to account for it any more than Jim Acosta or Esme Murphy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: After hearing Ben Shapiro roasting Rupar last week on his radio show, I have to say it&#8217;s been amazing seeing that more people nationwide are learning what we in the Twin Cities have known for most of a decade: that City Pages alum and Vox &#8220;writer&#8221; Aaron Rupar is a really terrible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,44,349],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-77240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-stupid","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77240","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=77240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77242,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77240\/revisions\/77242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}