{"id":84154,"date":"2022-12-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84154"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:07:13","slug":"before-the-truth-gets-its-pants-on-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84154","title":{"rendered":"Before The Truth Gets Its Pants On In The Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: It’s MSNBC. A commentator is bellowing at the camera.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMMENTATOR: Long Island Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is lying<\/em>! Which means he’s no different than all Republicans<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: In a South African jail cell, three inmates are watching MSNBC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOE BIDEN: The commentator is right. Republicans all lie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CORN POP: Word up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NELSON MANDELA: I”m so glad you left the leadership of the Delaware Civil RIghts movmement to come to jail, here in South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: In a classroom in Boulder, CO, watching MSNBC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RACHEL DOLEZAL: That’s right! Can I get an amen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLASROOM: (A few half-hearted or sarcastic “amens” ensue<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: A Hill somewhere in the Mekong Delta. Two men in jungle fatigues, M-16s smoking, stand amid a pile of slain Viet Cong and piles of cartridge cases<\/em>, watching MSNBC on a black and white console TV set. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOHN KERRY: Let me be clear. I agree with this perspective. All Republicans lie through their teeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RICHARD BLUMENTHAL<\/a>: (Spitting a plug of tobacco into the foxhole, wiping blood off his K-Bar knife on his pants leg<\/em>). Yup. All of ’em. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE:<\/em> At a steak house in Newark, New Jersey. MSNBC is playing on a TV over the bar. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T-BONE: Wotchuthinkabout dat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COREY BOOKER: He’s right. All Republicans lie, all the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: A runway in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/a>. A group of American officials, Secret Service, and a blondish woman huddle behind a brick wall as sniper five spatters the ground around them. A racket of gunfire as Bosnian troops return fire, trying to clear the airfield for the woman to get on her plane. On a TV behind the wall, MSNBC blares. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HILLARY CLINTON: Damn straight they’re all liars!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: At a Native American observance, with drums and dancers, on the quad at Harvard University, as a TV blares MSNBC in the distance. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ELIZABETH WARREN: The great spirit that is the true law professor of the universe agrees. Republicans are liars. As the first woman of color at this law school<\/a>, I agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drums continue to beat, as crowds of pasty white liberals shuffle past. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: At a spa in Hollywood, a man and woman lie on their backs, cucumber slices over their eyes, listening to MSNBC on a TV in the background.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HILARIA BALDWIN: Repobelicans are de woorst liahrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALEC BALDWIN: I oughtta kill them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: At the Saint Paul Grill. Editors and Executive Producers from the Star-Tribune, KARE, WCCO-TV and the Pioneer Press are having cocktails<\/em> with Ken Martin<\/em> as MSNBC plays above the bar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITORS AND PRODUCER AND MARTIN: Heh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCENE: in the back of a limousine, driving through the District of Columbia. Ilhan OMAR is sitting in the back with husband Tim MYNETT, watching MSNBC on a mobile device. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OMAR: I was never married to my brother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MYNETT: Literally nobody in the world believes you were, darling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AND SCENE\/S.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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