{"id":9322,"date":"2010-03-16T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2010-03-16T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:58:01","slug":"fronting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9322","title":{"rendered":"Fronting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I take occasional issue with my fellow AM1280 host Bradlee Dean on some questions political and theological, even as I support his program, “Sons of Liberty”.\u00a0 “Sons…” does for politics what his late, long-running show on AM980 The Believer did for religion; take it back to its original fundamentals; going back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison on The Patriot\u00a0more or less like referring to Luke and Saint Paul on The Believer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neither program is\/was for the faint of heart or the mushy of belief.\u00a0 Like I said – I disagree with Dean on some things as strenuously as I agree with him on others.<\/p>\n

But knowing Bradlee as I do – he’s a great guy, and I’ve had a lot of fun watching his kids grow up over the years during our mutual Saturday time slots – I got a kick out of Andy Birkey’s\u00a0odd little swat at Dean<\/a>\u00a0in the Mindy <\/em>yesterday (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, the front group<\/strong> for the punk rock ministry of Bradlee Dean…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Front group?”<\/p>\n

Now, perhaps Birkey was writing imprecisely.\u00a0 But a “Front” usually implies some level of deception – like the Mob using a laundry as a front for a drug operation, for example, or someone setting up a potemkin news organization to serve as a campaign propaganda outlet<\/a>.\u00a0 That kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Just between you (pl) and me, whatever Bradlee Dean is, he’s not especially reticent about who he is or what he or “You Can Run…” represents.<\/p>\n

Back to Birkey:<\/p>\n

…\u00a0took his brand of fundamentalist Christianity to a DFL gubernatorial meet-and-greet several weeks ago…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several weeks ago<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Then why cover it on a “news” site?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Did Birkey just hear about it?\u00a0 Or was it a slow news day at the Mindy<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Or did John Marty need to place a story showing how he was duking it out with all those teabagging fundies to make his gubernatorial campaign seem like less a relic from the nineties?<\/p>\n

There was some other stuff, but I lost interest.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I take occasional issue with my fellow AM1280 host Bradlee Dean on some questions political and theological, even as I support his program, “Sons of Liberty”.\u00a0 “Sons…” does for politics what his late, long-running show on AM980 The Believer did for religion; take it back to its original fundamentals; going back to Thomas Jefferson and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","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=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}