{"id":357,"date":"2008-08-14T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=357"},"modified":"2010-07-19T02:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:30:05","slug":"deducing-from-what-isnt-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Deducing From What Isn&#8217;t Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of things we can deduce from what the national press is not reporting about the killing of Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p><b>The killer has no particular ties to the Republican Party or any other right-wing political organization.<\/b>  How do we know this?   Because that is without question what the national media went looking for before the corpse had cooled, desperately hoping they&#8217;d hit.  If they&#8217;d found anything, they&#8217;d be screaming it from the rooftops now.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><b>The killer has no particular ties to the Democratic Party&#8217;s activist left or any other left-wing political organization.<\/b>  How do we know this?   Because that is without question the second thing the national media went looking for, desperately hoping they&#8217;d miss.  If they&#8217;d found anything, Gwatney&#8217;s death would be a non-story now.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Just another note in a series that probably should have included &#8220;How much sooner would the Hunter affair have been broken if John Edwards were a Republican?&#8221;  Of course, such questions almost answer themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of things we can deduce from what the national press is not reporting about the killing of Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney: The killer has no particular ties to the Republican Party or any other right-wing political organization. How do we know this? Because that is without question what the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=357\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deducing From What Isn&#8217;t Reported<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}