{"id":83215,"date":"2022-08-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83215"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:53:04","slug":"the-medias-loving-embrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83215","title":{"rendered":"The Media\u2019s Loving Embrace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the <em>Strib<\/em>, there\u2019s almost no difference between the two attorney general candidates!<\/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\">Minnesota attorney general candidates Keith Ellison and Jim Schultz both say they would beef up criminal prosecutions.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fc6hoRAyvY\">https:\/\/t.co\/fc6hoRAyvY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1563356878645538816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, an honest report would note that, for the incumbent Attorney General, this (if true, which you can never really assume with the incumbent attorney general) <em>would be a 180\u00b0 reversal of course<\/em>\u2026<\/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\">Ellison supported <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DefundThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DefundThePolice<\/a>, recently appeared as the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for Minnesota Freedom Fund (which bails out criminals), and has an intentionally anemic criminal division in his AG office.<br><br>But, sure, he&#39;ll get tough on crime after you elect him again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBHHrmwfhs\">https:\/\/t.co\/RBHHrmwfhs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1563866705344045056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 but no worries. It\u2019s not like people are concerned about law and order, this cycle\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Strib, there\u2019s almost no difference between the two attorney general candidates! I mean, an honest report would note that, for the incumbent Attorney General, this (if true, which you can never really assume with the incumbent attorney general) would be a 180\u00b0 reversal of course\u2026 \u2026 but no worries. It\u2019s not like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,2],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-83215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-minnesota-politics","tag-ellison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215","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=83215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83233,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215\/revisions\/83233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}