{"id":1591,"date":"2007-12-04T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2007-12-04T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T01:41:00","slug":"devils-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Devil&#8217;s Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Luc<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Lavoie<\/span><\/span> is out and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">NDP<\/span><\/span> spinster <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenkinsella.com\/index.php?entry=entry071203-074750\">Robin Sears is in <\/a>as Mulroney&#8217;s spokesman. Not a good sign given how long <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Lavoie has<\/span><\/span> been spinning for his old friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to wonder if this has something to do with <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Lavoie&#8217;s<\/span> comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/fifth\/moneytruthandspin\/\">fifth estate special <\/a>from February &#8217;06:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There never was any money. He&#8217;s too smart to do something like that. It&#8217;s just too dummy. It&#8217;s too damn stupid. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said it himself under oath. So it would be major perjury, right? A former PM of a country like Canada doesn&#8217;t go under oath to say something like this. You don&#8217;t lie about this stuff. To think otherwise is pretty insulting.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yup. Hard to disagree.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news<\/em><\/strong>, poor Jean Charest has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macleans.ca\/advansis\/?mod=for&amp;act=dip&amp;pid=92144&amp;tid=92144&amp;eid=48&amp;so=1&amp;ps=0&amp;sb=1\">pulled into this mess <\/a>and the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewcoyne.com\/2007\/12\/der-skandalnamenkontest.php\">name that scandal<\/a>&#8221; contest has four finalists:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Airbust<\/span><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Airbucks<\/span><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">Schreibergelder<\/span><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">Schreiberbriber<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While I do love the way &#8220;<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">Schreiberbriber<\/span>&#8221; rolls off the tongue, I&#8217;m partial towards <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_10\">Airbucks<\/span> myself.<\/p>\n<p><em>5th estate Hat Tip: tGPOitHotW<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Luc Lavoie is out and NDP spinster Robin Sears is in as Mulroney&#8217;s spokesman. Not a good sign given how long Lavoie has been spinning for his old friend&#8230; You&#8217;ve got to wonder if this has something to do with Lavoie&#8217;s comments on the fifth estate special from February &#8217;06: &#8220;There never was any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}