{"id":78340,"date":"2021-06-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78340"},"modified":"2021-06-13T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:39:50","slug":"two-rules-one-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78340","title":{"rendered":"Two Rules, One Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If government tells you something, distrust but verify.  And then, usually, distrust some more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the media tells you something \u2013 at least, anything about an event that is especially socially fractious &#8211; distrust, and verify even harder. And, as always, usually wind up distrusting even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If any of Big Left\u2019s social hangers on declares some thing with immense servitude? Distrust, verify, and, well, you know the drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week was the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPerish the thought, it couldn\u2019t possibly have been a deranged man tied to and eliminationist sect of Islamism\u201c, Big Media media assured us.   \u201cIt was an anti-LGBTQ hate crime, nothing more, nothing less\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is how the media and Biden administration have been treating it, over this past weekend  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Distrust. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/noor-salman-pulse-massacre-wrong_n_5ac29ebae4b04646b6454dc2\">Verify<\/a>.<\/p><p>Continue distrusting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If government tells you something, distrust but verify. And then, usually, distrust some more. If the media tells you something \u2013 at least, anything about an event that is especially socially fractious &#8211; distrust, and verify even harder. And, as always, usually wind up distrusting even more. If any of Big Left\u2019s social hangers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,263,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-narrative-for-sale","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78340","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=78340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78341,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78340\/revisions\/78341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}