{"id":89996,"date":"2025-10-22T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89996"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:17:58","slug":"questions-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89996","title":{"rendered":"Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Strib has run three pieces on the past few weeks pondering who paid for Rick Kupchella&#8217;s &#8220;A Precarious State&#8221; &#8211; which lays out the state of Minnesota&#8217;s decay, and lays much of it at the feet of the Minneapolis and legislative &#8220;Democrat Socialists of America&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s paying for Kupchella to put the facts out?<\/p>\n<p>My question is: \u00a0who&#8217;s paying the\u00a0<em>Strib\u00a0<\/em>to cover them up?<\/p>\n<p>OK, I have another question that I&#8217;ve been asking of Kupchella&#8217;s many left-wing critics: \u00a0which fact presented are in error?<\/p>\n<p>Other than &#8220;who funded it?&#8221; (who cares, if the facts are correct?), the closest I&#8217;ve gotten to an answer is &#8220;it&#8217;s one-sided&#8221;. \u00a0To which I respond &#8220;so is the flat-earth debate. \u00a0That doesn&#8217;t mean one side is wrong&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Precarious State | A Documentary for Minnesota&#039;s Future (Full Documentary)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vV1tZonK8TU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune has questions.  I have a bigger one.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minneapolis","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89996","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=89996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89999,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89996\/revisions\/89999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}