{"id":12190,"date":"2014-11-25T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12190"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:58:22","slug":"clay-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12190","title":{"rendered":"Cheerleaders for a lynching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like KBJR&#8217;s weather people. We attend the same church and they are swell folks. I write this as a disclaimer for what follows. I&#8217;ve had some challenges dealing with KBJR reporters this last year. They are back with a vengeance but this time they are going after my only ally on the school board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uloc.de\/screenshots\/j\/jabf07_32_smithers_hunde.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last fall when I was running for the School Board and just a few weeks before the election KBJR set two reporters on me like Mr. Burns releasing his hounds of hell. The reporters were about to report that I lied about being a teacher and had a child molester for a campaign manager. They were wrong but this led me to pay about $500 bucks to discuss these allegations in an ad in the Duluth Reader: You can read the ad in full in <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10262\">this post<\/a> from Oct. 27, 2013. My ad begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A TV reporter just called to tell me that an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anonymous source\u00e2\u20ac\u009d had told her that I had falsely claimed to be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153retired teacher.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I told her she was in error but she insisted twice that there was no record of me teaching in Proctor or the Duluth Schools. Then she insisted I had obviously violated my quaint campaign slogan, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Honesty is the best policy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be nice to think that before they attempted another character assassination; this time on board member, Art Johnston, they would stop to consider that the primary eye witness of Art&#8217;s &#8220;assault&#8221; (tapping the Superintendent on the shoulder) is dating one of KBJR&#8217;s newscasters.<\/p>\n<p>I just called KJBR&#8217;s news department and had a pointed discussion with the reporter of this hideously unnuanced story which declares that investigator Mary Rice had found that Art had committed all six of the offenses leveled at him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northlandsnewscenter.com\/news\/Duluth-School-Board-to-hold-special-meeting-on-Art-Johnston-investigation-283773651.html\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a> to the story on their webpage.<\/p>\n<p>I urged the reporter to talk to her News Director and either pull the story or follow it up with something a little more journalistic-ally sound.<\/p>\n<p>I then told her I hoped they would send a camera to the December 2nd meeting in which Mary Rice will explain her report to the School Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like KBJR&#8217;s weather people. We attend the same church and they are swell folks. I write this as a disclaimer for what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12190"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12199,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190\/revisions\/12199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}