{"id":84901,"date":"2023-04-12T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84901"},"modified":"2023-04-12T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:02:35","slug":"i-take-the-punches-i-cant-slip-and-i-give-em-right-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84901","title":{"rendered":"I Take The Punches I Can&#8217;t Slip, And I Give &#8216;Em Right Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Steve Van Zandt<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant and Longtime Fan<br>Re:  I&#8217;ll Meet You Halfway<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, you got into a bit of a flap over this:<\/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=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tIvdcyPQg0\">pic.twitter.com\/tIvdcyPQg0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ben Owen\u2122\ufe0f (@hrkbenowen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrkbenowen\/status\/1645952969072947207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You removed the tweet, but followed up saying that you meant &#8220;exterminate at the ballot box&#8221;, although you delivered it with all the subtle grace of Sean Penn on a three day bender.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But hey, I&#8217;ll meet you halfway.  Ask Sarah Palin what it&#8217;s like, having something that was meant one way passed off as something completely different. That&#8217;s politics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And given the number of unstable, armed people on <em>your <\/em>side of the political aisle, perhaps you should moderate your tone a bit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But while others focus on your original rhetoric, I&#8217;m going to roast you for this:<\/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\">In this case the phrase was used as symbolism. I know you pathetic MAGotts don\u2019t have the intelligence to recognize that but that\u2019s your problem. Don\u2019t project your mindless violence fantasies on this peace loving hippie. Exterminate at the ballot box was clearly what was meant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sE92Ew7CuK\">https:\/\/t.co\/sE92Ew7CuK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udd49\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udfe6Stevie Van Zandt\u262e\ufe0f\ud83d\udc99 (@StevieVanZandt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevieVanZandt\/status\/1645829353316515840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s one of an endless series of tweets in your feed where you refer to Republicans as some variant of stupid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of us sure are.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But none of <em>us <\/em>ever put &#8220;Princess of Little Italy&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5367\">an otherwise perfect record<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humility is in order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(CLOSED CIRCUIT: Comments to the effect of &#8220;Why do you listen to music from people who hate you&#8221; will be mocked and taunted.  We&#8217;ve been through this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Steve Van ZandtFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant and Longtime FanRe: I&#8217;ll Meet You Halfway Steve, Earlier this week, you got into a bit of a flap over this: You removed the tweet, but followed up saying that you meant &#8220;exterminate at the ballot box&#8221;, although you delivered it with all the subtle grace of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,426,44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-84901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-stupid","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901","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=84901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84904,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions\/84904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}