{"id":1903,"date":"2008-09-09T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2008-09-09T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:27:00","slug":"great-election-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Great Election Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080909.welxnpuffin0909\/BNStory\/politics\/home\"><strong>Pooping Puffin Pulled From Tory Ad<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244064316460442274\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SMaotintIqI\/AAAAAAAAAiA\/o90lop_-fQ4\/s320\/Puffindion.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>But not only is that the best headline so far from the campaign, the story also has the best lead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The Conservatives have edited an Internet ad showing a bird pooping on Liberal Leader St\u00e9phane Dion to remove the defecation scene.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily, Harper has made it perfectly clear that he does not approve of the defecation scene in the least bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Tories say the clip was the result of an overzealous web designer and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper apologized for the defecating puffin, calling it \u201ctasteless and inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Harper said he didn&#8217;t know about the web clip before it was posted Monday night. \u201cBelittling images are not fair game,\u201d Mr. Harper said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Belittling images are not fair game?!?!? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Has Stephen Harper visited conservative.ca at all in the past year?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244049211486249522\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SMaa-UNOIjI\/AAAAAAAAAh4\/9kmRy4yqyIs\/s320\/IgnatieffDion.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is probably the <em>least<\/em> surprising gaffe we&#8217;ll see all campaign. My only regret is that I didn&#8217;t put &#8220;<em>first Tory photoshop screw-up<\/em>&#8221; as a question on my <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/election-called-jump-into-pool.html\">election pool <\/a>(submissions due tonight!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pooping Puffin Pulled From Tory Ad But not only is that the best headline so far from the campaign, the story also has the best lead: The Conservatives have edited an Internet ad showing a bird pooping on Liberal Leader St\u00e9phane Dion to remove the defecation scene. Luckily, Harper has made it perfectly clear that [&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-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","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=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}