{"id":88266,"date":"2024-09-02T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88266"},"modified":"2024-09-02T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:08:15","slug":"the-new-guy-on-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88266","title":{"rendered":"The New Girl On The Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There must be a new reporter on the campaign beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nobody told her &#8211; Governor Walz <em>doesn&#8217;t answer <\/em>questions.\u00a0 Not when asked by Dana Bash in a pre-taped interview&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<em>much less <\/em>at the state fair, where the media&#8217;s job for the six years of. his regime so far has been to ask him about food and fishing, as his social media team takes gauzy photos of him holding piglets and getting fed corn dogs by Peggy Flanagan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nobody told the new girl. And it got awkward:<\/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\">Watch Tim Walz&#39;s shocking reaction when asked about Israeli hostages murdered in Gaza | Daily Mail Online \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DMH76Tyunc\">https:\/\/t.co\/DMH76Tyunc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CyberChick (@warriors_mom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors_mom\/status\/1830402708349559229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Friggin&#8217; interlopers.  Is nothing sacred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be a new reporter on the campaign beat.\u00a0 Nobody told her &#8211; Governor Walz doesn&#8217;t answer questions.\u00a0 Not when asked by Dana Bash in a pre-taped interview&#8230; &#8230;much less at the state fair, where the media&#8217;s job for the six years of. his regime so far has been to ask him about food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-88266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266","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=88266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88268,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266\/revisions\/88268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}