{"id":79304,"date":"2021-08-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79304"},"modified":"2021-08-22T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T14:23:58","slug":"the-world-is-discovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79304","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Discovering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>&#8230;what we in the Twin Cities have known for a while: that if you want something resembling detached reporting (there is no such thing as &#8220;objective&#8221; reporting) of Democrats, you need to go to the UK.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past several years, the only place in the mainstream, non-conservative media (with all due shouts out to Powerline, David Steinberg and Alphanews) has been the Daily Mail, and occasionally the Guardian.  Literally no Twin Cities media outlet will report on Omar, barring being occasionally shamed into doing the bare minimum; the Mail is all the coverage there is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The world appears to have woken up to an important truth this week: which is that Joe Biden is a truly terrible president. It is a shame that it took America gifting Afghanistan back to the Taliban for so many people to realise this.<\/p><p>To be charitable, there were perhaps two reasons why this had not become more obvious before. The first is that Joe Biden is not Donald Trump and for a lot of the planet that seems to be recommendation enough to occupy the Oval Office. A break from the Trump show appealed to an awful lot of people.<\/p><p>But the second reason why too few realised what the world was going to get from a Biden presidency is that the US media simply didn\u2019t ask the questions it needed to ask. Before the election a near entirety of the American media gave up covering it and simply campaigned for the Democrat nominee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>d on the national level?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/08\/20\/biden-always-unfit-president-left-wing-media-cheerleaders-didnt2\/\">Same<\/a>: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Democracy needs institutions &#8211; like the media &#8211; to survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which means, at present, that we&#8217;re screwed blue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what we in the Twin Cities have known for a while: that if you want something resembling detached reporting (there is no such thing as &#8220;objective&#8221; reporting) of Democrats, you need to go to the UK. For the past several years, the only place in the mainstream, non-conservative media (with all due shouts out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79304","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=79304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79304\/revisions\/79305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}