{"id":2851,"date":"2011-01-27T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2011-01-27T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:32:00","slug":"from-the-party-who-brought-you-a-puffin-pooping-on-stephane-dion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"From the party who brought you a puffin pooping on Stephane Dion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;come two of the most ridiculous political ads of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"WIDTH: 384px; HEIGHT: 234px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JXCkoLMOh54?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JXCkoLMOh54?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"384\" height=\"234\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object style=\"WIDTH: 384px; HEIGHT: 234px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/97uT-6vKjk0?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/97uT-6vKjk0?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"384\" height=\"234\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to take quotes and clips out of context. It&#8217;s another to take them out of context in the way Rick Mercer would. Just because you&#8217;re <em>able <\/em>to splice something together in 48 hours, and just because you <em>have <\/em>the money to air them, and just because it&#8217;s funny to four frat boys in the CPC war room, it doesn&#8217;t mean you <em>need <\/em>to do it.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what makes these ads ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>What makes them ridiculous is the Tories are running up against a guy who is seen as an aloof, wooden university professor. So they show clips of him fired up, full of passion.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a dumb move? Let&#8217;s ask Michael Ignatieff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>: And the Tories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/insidepolitics\/2011\/01\/cpcadwatch-well-that-was-a-quick-spin-through-the-rotation.html\">pull the ads<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll all join me in a hearty round of &#8220;YES! YES! YES!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;come two of the most ridiculous political ads of the last decade. It&#8217;s one thing to take quotes and clips out of context. It&#8217;s another to take them out of context in the way Rick Mercer would. Just because you&#8217;re able to splice something together in 48 hours, and just because you have the money [&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\/2851"}],"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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}