{"id":89318,"date":"2025-03-03T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89318"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:13:46","slug":"take-a-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89318","title":{"rendered":"Take A &#8220;W&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I started this blog, 23 years ago this month, I had a few assumptions about politics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minneapolis was as crazy as it was ever going to get<\/li>\n<li>If you told me CD8 would <em>ever\u00a0<\/em>vote Republican, I&#8217;d have said you were certifiable<\/li>\n<li>Big media &#8211; from the Strib and MPR to the NYTimes and WaPo &#8211; were on a sluice-track to being Pravda, and nothing was going to change that.\u00a0 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I was wrong about all of them &#8211; including at least part of that third bullet: Jeff Bezos, whose <em>Washington Post <\/em>has for the past 15 years considered Jennifer Rubin &#8220;conservative&#8221;, frankly shocked me just a tad.  Read the whole thing.  <\/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\">I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:<br><br>I\u2019m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. <br> <br>We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We\u2019ll cover other topics too\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffBezos\/status\/1894757287052362088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I cynical enough to wonder what the &#8220;but&#8221; is?\u00a0 Hell yeah.\u00a0 If Jennifer Rubin was &#8220;conservative&#8221;, maybe Robert Reich is &#8220;pro free market&#8221; and Fareed Zakaria is a &#8220;personal liberty&#8221; guy.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>But conservative-ish populism seems to be gaining ground in our culture -and maybe, just maybe, dragging some institutions with it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>More later in the week.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started this blog, 23 years ago this month, I had a few assumptions about politics: Minneapolis was as crazy as it was ever going to get If you told me CD8 would ever\u00a0vote Republican, I&#8217;d have said you were certifiable Big media &#8211; from the Strib and MPR to the NYTimes and WaPo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89318","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=89318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89326,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89318\/revisions\/89326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}