{"id":83464,"date":"2022-09-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83464"},"modified":"2022-09-25T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:43:22","slug":"possibilities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83464","title":{"rendered":"Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let\u2019s talk about the Cayler Ellison case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berg\u2018s 18th law normally takes affect for the first three days after a politically charged event, since our main stream media is more concerned about ratings and \u201cscoops\u201c than getting facts straight, especially in politically charged events.since our main stream media is more concerned about ratings and \u201cscoops\u201c then about getting facts straight, especially in politically charged events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019m going to make an executive call, and in this case extend the statutory Bergs 18th law deadline to a solid week, since the main stream media got no closer than 100 miles from McHenry, ND, the actual scene of the crime – i\u2019ve seen no evidence of any journalists reporting from any place closer than Fargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s what we know so far:<\/a> at a street dance in McHenry last Sunday, some sort of altercation lead Shannon Brandt, age 41, to run down the 18-year-old Mr. Ellington. Ellington died of his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandt, Who has a drunk driving record and who blew over a .08 after his arrest, told of the 911 operator the afternoon that Ellingson was a member of a \u201cextremist Republican\u201c organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big media has soft pedaled this story. Conservatives say it\u2019s evidence of media bias. Progressives hope it\u2019s true, and that they can erase both another Republican and red state voter from the list.<\/p>

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Let\u2019s consider the actual possibilities, Hare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s The Bias, Stupid<\/strong>: for the past decade and a half, big media has been wedded to the idea that the next big wave of terrorism is going to be white, Republican extremists. A democrat extremist doing the actual terrorizing, much less killing? Is that \u2013 like the would-be Brent Kavanaugh assassin, or the many other examples of Democrats killing or attacking Republicans \u2013 doesn\u2019t fit the narrative. Narratives beget lazy journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in McHenry North Dakota? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s easy for journalists to get lazy when it comes to covering places like McHenry, North Dakota – in Foster County (where I lived, briefly), a very red place in one of the most Republican states in the union, a County were Donald Trump may have won by just shy of a three digit margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which sets off a small warning bell with the conservative narrative: it\u2019s easy to conceive of people roaming around looking to kill conservatives with impunity in places like Highland Park or Cambridge Massachusetts. but in rural North Dakota?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s put a pin in that idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of Course It\u2019s The Bias \u2013 But Not The Bias You\u2019re Thinking About: so let\u2019s say that, rather than being it would be Democrat assassin roaming rural North Dakota looking for \u201cRepublican extremists\u201c, you\u2019re just a guy with a drunk driving record and, according to his neighbors, a history of troubling behavior. You\u2019ve just gotten into a spat with someone less than half your age, at a street dance, and run them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s your alibi? The thing that you think that is going to make you a less unsympathetic perpetrator?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was a Republican extremist?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea that there are people out there for whom that is their first thought, even in an alcoholic or psychiatric fog, should concern everyone, no matter what your politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occam\u2019s Shot Glass:<\/strong> let\u2019s go back to the pin we put, earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandt\u2019s neighbors say he has a history of being, basically, nuts. He drinks a bit. He\u2019s got a criminal record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to outside of Berg\u2018s 18th laws statutory boundaries to think perhaps this episode was both<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n