{"id":2485,"date":"2009-11-19T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2009-11-19T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:45:00","slug":"yet-he-who-is-without-sin-cast-the-first-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2485","title":{"rendered":"Yet he who is without sin cast the first tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/blogs\/bureau-blog\/will-banality-spur-twitter-ban\/article1368068\/\">Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charlie Angus wants MPs banned from Twitter just \u201cto save politicians from looking like idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ontario New Democrat is serious: \u201cI have nothing against the technology, nothing,\u201d he said this morning. \u201cBut it really exposes the absolute banality of this place. \u2026 There is something about it that turns otherwise intelligent professionals into Grade 9 jocks and cheerleaders in a school cafeteria.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/article.jsp?content=20070321_193705_9992\">Then<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The scene. The day ended, fittingly, with an apology &#8211; the member for Timmins-James Bay, Charlie Angus, asked to excuse himself for yelling &#8220;bull&#8212;-&#8221; as the government&#8217;s man on native affairs, Jim Prentice, attempted to explain his department&#8217;s alleged inaction on some controversy or another.<\/p>\n<p>Angus said he would indeed apologize for his language, but he would not apologize for the government&#8217;s failings. This seemed reasonable, he being an NDP critic and therefore entirely unresponsible for the affairs of governing(and equally unlikely to ever be so).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It was around this time that Charlie Angus started swearing. And the rest is pretty much a blur.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that it&#8217;s going to take a lot more than a ban on twitter to &#8220;save politicians from looking like idiots&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now: Charlie Angus wants MPs banned from Twitter just \u201cto save politicians from looking like idiots.\u201d The Northern Ontario New Democrat is serious: \u201cI have nothing against the technology, nothing,\u201d he said this morning. \u201cBut it really exposes the absolute banality of this place. \u2026 There is something about it that turns otherwise intelligent professionals [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}