{"id":86848,"date":"2024-01-16T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86848"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:28:39","slug":"maybe-he-should-stick-with-food-pr0n-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86848","title":{"rendered":"Maybe He Should Stick With Food-Pr0n Selfies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Don’t get me wrong. Jason DeRusha – former Channel 4 reporter and morning anchor, turned afternoon drive guy at the once-great WCCO – isn’t a bad guy. I’ve met him, engaged with him a time or two, and by Twin Cities media standards he’s OK. He’s no Bob Collins, anyway [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if I were a DFL Comms person who wanted to come up with a nice, low-impact media appearance to side-slip the impression that your Governor’s only media contact was an endless stream of selfies and cheesecake (and donut, and pizza and corn dog) photos, without sweating the Governor <\/em>too hard, DeRusha – or, really, anyone at ‘CCO – would be at the top of the list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But somehow he managed to choke<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMinnesota is a diverse state, it continues to grow. This flag was crafted in the 1890s,\u201d said Gov. Walz regarding Minnesota\u2019s\u00a0current flag<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s highly offensive to a large number of people, and there\u2019s very little debate about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“…there’s very little debate” because the DFL steamrolled it through without a whole lot of debate allowed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here’s the clinker:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When asked about this topic, Gov. Walz compared these Republican efforts to \u201csomehow saving the Confederate battle flag.\u201d The governor added, \u201cThese are the arguments that happened with Jefferson Davis statues in Alabama.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That’s right. The “old” flag was the one the 21st Virginia carried at Gettysburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember – he’s the governor of “#OneMinnesota”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] Of course, either was Bob Collins, ’til he retired. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t get me wrong. Jason DeRusha – former Channel 4 reporter and morning anchor, turned afternoon drive guy at the once-great WCCO – isn’t a bad guy. I’ve met him, engaged with him a time or two, and by Twin Cities media standards he’s OK. He’s no Bob Collins, anyway [1] But if I were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86850,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86848\/revisions\/86850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}