{"id":84059,"date":"2022-12-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84059"},"modified":"2022-12-12T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:21:29","slug":"let-them-eat-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84059","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Pasta!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anyone remember Mika McFeely? He\u2019s sort of the Filene\u2019s Basement version of Ed Schultz, another guy who got his start talking about grown men chasing balls around fields, and decided to go into being a political, talking head.  He&#8217;s the Heitkamp family&#8217;s token liberal on KFGO in Fargo, and proof that the talent bench for progressive talk hosts in Fargo is even shallower than in the Twin Cities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31167\">wrote about him (checks notes), a little over 12 years ago, when he wrote easily the stupidest hatchet piece I\u2019ve ever seen<\/a>, about Mary Franson, during the 2012 elections.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; he came to Minneapolis over the weekend.  Ironically, it was to see <em>Les Mis<\/em>, a play featuring an out of touch patrician class that attacks a plebaian class whose travails they neither share nor understand.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; he had a great time!<\/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\">We were so terrified of downtown Minneapolis after seeing \u201cLes Miserables\u201d with hundreds of other people that we stopped at the Red Rabbit for some pasta. Place was full. Must be other terrified people like us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O33ltukJxt\">pic.twitter.com\/O33ltukJxt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike McFeely (@McFeely_Inforum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McFeely_Inforum\/status\/1602080332454498304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, he went to a show, with hundreds of other people, and then went to a tony restaurant on the south end of the gentrified North Loop. Back to the hotel &#8211; or on the road back to Fargo? &#8211; by 11!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> And look &#8211; no crime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guess all those people talking about crime in Minneapolis are wrong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of crime &#8211; tourist McFeely has an interesting perspective on recent Twin Cities history:<\/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\">All these people putting themselves in danger from Antifa. Scary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ocnrtMyLdK\">https:\/\/t.co\/ocnrtMyLdK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kz5LSRJ89Q\">pic.twitter.com\/Kz5LSRJ89Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike McFeely (@McFeely_Inforum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McFeely_Inforum\/status\/1602043468771115009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure it&#8217;s &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa that&#8217;s shooting up crowds after bar closing on First Avenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he&#8217;s getting a <em>little <\/em>warmer: &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa <em>are <\/em>the children of the Twin Cities <em>bon vivant <\/em>class.  But they didn&#8217;t burn the Ordway, or Kenwood or Linden Hills.  They burned East Lake and University &#8211; the places where immigrants and lots of entrepreneurs and workers try to earn a living.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he didn&#8217;t go to a show on Lake, or Uni, or up at Plymouth and Sheridan, now, did he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I guess that settles it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone remember Mika McFeely? He\u2019s sort of the Filene\u2019s Basement version of Ed Schultz, another guy who got his start talking about grown men chasing balls around fields, and decided to go into being a political, talking head. He&#8217;s the Heitkamp family&#8217;s token liberal on KFGO in Fargo, and proof that the talent bench for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,63,17,426,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-lefty-alt-media","category-minneapolis","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84059","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=84059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84062,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84059\/revisions\/84062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}