{"id":78752,"date":"2021-07-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78752"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:29:54","slug":"privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78752","title":{"rendered":"Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Esme &#8220;Rabid Bulldog&#8221; Murphy, the dowager dean of Minnesota political reporters and tenacious, <em>utterly impartial <\/em>reporter on all things political in the state of Minnesota, who has <em>never, ever <\/em>been fairly or accurately accused of softballing DFLers, twote in re Rep. John &#8220;Burn Hugo Down&#8221; Thompson and allegations that he snuck out of a not-generally accessible back stairway from Minneapolis City Hall to avoid reporters who, to my amazement, seem curious about his verbal claims of racism and written but unacknowledge claims of multiple residences:<\/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\">I talked very briefly by phone to Rep. John Thompson this afternoon. He said he had &quot;no comment, I&#39;ve released a statement&#8230;. please respect the privacy of my family and me&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wcco<\/a> 6pm<\/p>&mdash; esme murphy (@esmemurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esmemurphy\/status\/1415069116780748800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that settles that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing no DFL pol <em>ever <\/em>needs to worry about, it&#8217;s Esme Murphy violating their privacy.  Or asking them anything more involved than their favorite flavor of ice cream.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s pump the brakes &#8211; I&#8217;m all for respecting peoples&#8217; privacy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, all I really want to know is, which of Thompson&#8217;s residences should I plan on <em>not <\/em>protesting at &#8211; the one on the East Side of Saint Paul, the one in Superior, some other residence not yet publicly discussed, or any or all of the above?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esme &#8220;Rabid Bulldog&#8221; Murphy, the dowager dean of Minnesota political reporters and tenacious, utterly impartial reporter on all things political in the state of Minnesota, who has never, ever been fairly or accurately accused of softballing DFLers, twote in re Rep. John &#8220;Burn Hugo Down&#8221; Thompson and allegations that he snuck out of a not-generally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,320],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-78752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-mndfl","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78752","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=78752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78753,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78752\/revisions\/78753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}