{"id":83976,"date":"2022-11-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83976"},"modified":"2022-11-30T06:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:44:53","slug":"a-tale-of-two-stories-from-the-baggage-claim-level-at-msp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83976","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two Stories From The Baggage Claim Level At MSP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fifteen years ago, when Republican Senator Larry Craig was alleged to have sought sexual favors from an undercover cop in a rest room on the baggage claim level at Minneapolis\/Saint Paul International Airport, there was no delay in getting the story out to the public.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today &#8211; a few weeks after Sam Brinton, a much-noted Biden Administration official and gender-fluid person was arrested mere feet away for allegedly stealing a woman&#8217;s suitcase off the luggage carousel (after not checking a bag of, er, their own for the flight at all), we get&#8230;:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1597762082946023424\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Look &#8211; if you want to shave your head, put on neon lipstick and a dress and excessively high heels, you go and live your best life. Go with God.  Stay tf out of my business, I&#8217;ll stay out of yours.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beef here is, as usual, the <em>Strib<\/em> had to be shamed into covering news unflattering to Democrats by a newspaper outside the Twin Cities.   The New York Post took a shift (the London Daily Mail has spent so much time scooping the Strib on Ilhan Omar, it&#8217;s affecting the trade balance).<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1597420447481610240\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Strib covered the story <em>three days <\/em>after conservative Alpha News.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court filings themselves would be the sort of thing late night comics might have had a field day with&#8230;<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/redheadranting\/status\/1597334020698038274\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;back in the day when late night comics weren&#8217;t bigger Democrat PR flaks than the <em>Strib<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, when Republican Senator Larry Craig was alleged to have sought sexual favors from an undercover cop in a rest room on the baggage claim level at Minneapolis\/Saint Paul International Airport, there was no delay in getting the story out to the public. Today &#8211; a few weeks after Sam Brinton, a much-noted [&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-83976","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\/83976","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=83976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83977,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83976\/revisions\/83977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}