{"id":77925,"date":"2021-05-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77925"},"modified":"2021-05-19T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:26:15","slug":"there-just-has-to-be-some-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77925","title":{"rendered":"There Just Has To Be Some Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was more than a little shocked to see this report from Channel 9 yesterday &#8211; partly because the Nine is the second-farthest-left leaning TV newsroom in town, and the station runs pro-BLM PSA liners during its newscasts&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and partly because BLM has been strictly &#8220;hands off&#8221; as far as questioning in the local media goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But darned if they didn&#8217;t:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Why is this community not angry? We only march when it\u2019s against the police, huh?&quot; <br><br>A 3rd child was shot in Minneapolis less than 8 hours after the grandmother of 10-year-old Ladavionne Garret, Jr poured her heart out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWWD1Dq7PU\">https:\/\/t.co\/gWWD1Dq7PU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 9 (@FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX9\/status\/1394668393798717443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another woman from the neighborhood took a tart swipe at &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221;, asking (I&#8221;m paraphrasing, since the Nine is going to make sure guns, not gang-bangers, are the enduring villains) why the protesters only seem to care if there&#8217;s a cop involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(If you can find the footage of the other woman, please post a link in the comments &#8211; it was one of the most startling things I&#8217;ve seen on local media&#8230;ever). <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was more than a little shocked to see this report from Channel 9 yesterday &#8211; partly because the Nine is the second-farthest-left leaning TV newsroom in town, and the station runs pro-BLM PSA liners during its newscasts&#8230; &#8230;and partly because BLM has been strictly &#8220;hands off&#8221; as far as questioning in the local media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925","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=77925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77935,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925\/revisions\/77935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}