{"id":82069,"date":"2022-05-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82069"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:02:09","slug":"how-can-you-tell-the-strib-is-lying-about-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82069","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Tell The Strib Is Lying About Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Star Tribune continues to earn its keep as the DFL\u2018s \u201cunpaid \u201c PR machine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those of you who weren\u2019t paying attention to the GOP convention last weekend \u2013 it hardly needs to be said, but nothing of the sort of happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A move to disaffiliate with the \u201cLog Cabin Republicans\u201d (to be fair, led by someone who has never been a fan of the notion of LGBTQ Republicans) wrapped up in a procedural motion to vote on the affiliation of each and every affiliate with the party (there are quite a few) led to the clock literally running out on the State Central Committee meeting on Thursday. For the evening, it left the affiliates unattached, and their delegates not credentialed to be seated in the convention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The body of the convention itself reversed that action on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This squabble \u2013 largely led by a representative from the first congressional district \u2013 mirrors in large part a similar fracas a few years ago, when a group of Central committee representatives and convention delegates tried to introduce rules that would bar Muslims from holding Republican Party positions.representatives and convention delegates tried to introduce rules that would bar Muslims from holding Republican Party positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the position of this blog that, whatever your personal beliefs about homosexuality and\/or Islam, that there is very little that is more aggressively American than \u201ccoming out\u201c as a Republican. Not even buying a house in Burnsville, with a literal freaking picket fence surrounding your front yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, in many of the communities served by these affiliates \u2013 Somali, Latino\u2018s, African-Americans, mong and LGBTQ Dash \u201ccoming out\u201c as a Republican carries an affirmative social risk these are not people to be pushed away; they are frequently the toughest, most resilient Republicans there are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People may disagree. Let\u2019s disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s also focus on the things we do agree on; for example, the Star Tribune<\/em> are a bunch of partisan hacks..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Star Tribune continues to earn its keep as the DFL\u2018s \u201cunpaid \u201c PR machine: For those of you who weren\u2019t paying attention to the GOP convention last weekend \u2013 it hardly needs to be said, but nothing of the sort of happened. A move to disaffiliate with the \u201cLog Cabin Republicans\u201d (to be fair, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,130,72,263,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circular-firing-squad","category-tc-media-bias","category-mngop","category-narrative-for-sale","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82069","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=82069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82075,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82069\/revisions\/82075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}