{"id":923,"date":"2007-06-15T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/15\/oranges-and-oranges\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:41:20","slug":"oranges-and-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Oranges and Oranges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, while covering a John Kline town hall meeting, reporter Jeff Fecke noted that Congressman Kline&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>didn&#8217;t actively kiss the butts of the TV news crews covering the event (although the crews were <em>there <\/em>and able to cover the event freely and without interference), and<\/li>\n<li>didn&#8217;t arrange for wireless internet to enable bloggers to liveblog the meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=1544\">conclusion<\/a>, over on his own blog?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Kline camp went into this meeting terrified of\u2026something.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what.\u00a0 And I think it was a huge strategic blunder.\u00a0 But they were scared to death of something happening that would make John Kline look bad, and they took pains to ensure that the meeting would be as tightly controlled as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bear in mind, the\u00a0tapes rolled and the bloggers typed (or took\u00a0 notes) unimpeded, while Kline (gasp) stayed on message.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m wondering if the local leftyblog peanut gallery has any comment about Al Franken, who <a href=\"http:\/\/kaaltv.com\/article\/stories\/S113503.shtml?cat=10151\"><em>barred cameras <\/em>from his speech<\/a> in Rochester?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>(I won&#8217;t hold my breath).<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is <\/em>Stuart Smalley terrified of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, while covering a John Kline town hall meeting, reporter Jeff Fecke noted that Congressman Kline&#8230;: didn&#8217;t actively kiss the butts of the TV news crews covering the event (although the crews were there and able to cover the event freely and without interference), and didn&#8217;t arrange for wireless internet to enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22233,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/22233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}