{"id":89477,"date":"2025-04-07T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89477"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:41:02","slug":"missing-the-forest-for-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89477","title":{"rendered":"Missing The Forest For The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I notice a common theme running through Berg&#8217;s Third Law (disasters) and Mother Jones Corollary to the Tenth Law (vicious lies) and 18th Law of Media Latency (48 hour rule): the media rushes to lie about Conservatives, so thoughtful readers will wait for the dust to settle an the truth to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if a similar principle should apply to President Trump?<\/p>\n<p>He proposes a course of action, the media loses its mind, Democrats and RINOs panic, the feared apocalypse does not occur. It happens over and over. He wants fair trade with Canada; Canada threatens to punish every American; tariffs are proposed; media, Democrats and RINOs panic; Canada backs down. If everybody had waited a week or two before setting their hair on fire, it all would have blown over.<\/p>\n<p>Generally takes longer than 48 hours so how about a two week rule?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee is taking it under advisement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I notice a common theme running through Berg&#8217;s Third Law (disasters) and Mother Jones Corollary to the Tenth Law (vicious lies) and 18th Law of Media Latency (48 hour rule): the media rushes to lie about Conservatives, so thoughtful readers will wait for the dust to settle an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,367,368],"tags":[245,424],"class_list":["post-89477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-trump","category-trump-derangement","tag-bergs-10th-law","tag-bergs-18th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89477","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=89477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89487,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89477\/revisions\/89487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}