{"id":1293,"date":"2007-02-21T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2007-02-21T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T10:34:00","slug":"face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Face Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the good things about blogs, is that you don’t always have to be serious and can descend into what I like to call “Jane Taber journalism” every now and then when the mood strikes. Today is one of those days.<\/p>\n

I’m sure a lot of you are already aware of the growing popularity of everyone’s<\/span><\/span> favourite stalking aid, facebook<\/a><\/span><\/span>. A growing trend seems to be for politicians (or, more appropriately, 16 year old interns pretending <\/em>to be their bosses) creating profiles on facebook<\/span><\/span>. Because of this, people can become “friends” with the politicians, send them notes, etc.<\/p>\n

So, purely because I’m bored, I was curious to see which politicians have the most friends. Given that Stephen Harper and Stephane<\/span><\/span> Dion both strike me as the anti-social type, it must be a surprise to both of them to see just how popular they really are:<\/p>\n

Stephen Harper: 511 friends
Stephane<\/span><\/span> Dion: 1086 friends<\/p>\n

So, while he may not be polling as well, when it comes to virtual friends who have never met him, Stephane<\/span><\/span> is way <\/em>more popular than Steve. Ohh<\/span><\/span>…and least <\/em>surprising of all:<\/p>\n

Jack Layton: 8 friends<\/p>\n

Geez<\/span><\/span> Jack – I know getting results for people takes a lot of time, but save a bit for your friends too.<\/p>\n

Other notables:<\/p>\n

Kevin Taft: 170 friends
Ed Stelmach<\/span><\/span>: No profiles, but 29 people in the “Ed Stelmach<\/span><\/span> fan club”
Michael Ignatieff<\/span><\/span>: 1583 friends (obviously not enough of them were delegates)<\/em>
Peter MacKay<\/span><\/span>: No profile, but 7 members in the Peter MacKay<\/span><\/span> fan club.
Dalton McGuinty<\/span><\/span>: 17 members in the “Dalton McGuinty<\/span><\/span> is handsome” club.
Hillary Clinton: No profile but over 500 groups <\/em>devoted to her, including “Don’t let a woman become President…especially Hillary Clinton<\/em>” and “Don’t support Hillary Clinton, support Chris Dodd<\/span><\/span><\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Other fun groups:<\/p>\n

“The Paul Wells Appreciation Society” [39 members]
“The Andrew Coyne<\/span><\/span> Fan Club” [119 members]
“I miss making fun of Jean Chretien” [78 members]
Two groups called <\/em>“Stephen Harper eats babies”
“Stephen Harper needs a stylist” [26 members]
“Stephen Harper is a cylon<\/span><\/span>” [23 members]
“Jack Layton lives on my street” [1 member]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the good things about blogs, is that you don’t always have to be serious and can descend into what I like to call “Jane Taber journalism” every now and then when the mood strikes. Today is one of those days. I’m sure a lot of you are already aware of the growing popularity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}