{"id":2928,"date":"2011-03-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:38:16","slug":"ad-watch-ignatieff-gets-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Ad Watch: Ignatieff Gets Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of new Liberal ads have hit the airwaves. <\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-7QGzuY5ye0&#038;feature=player_embedded\">first<\/a>, Ignatieff talks a bit about his past, and ties it in to the Liberals&#8217; just launched <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/and-now-something-for-those-of-you-who.html\">pension policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-7QGzuY5ye0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-7QGzuY5ye0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Then, Ignatieff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dx8Q-9EWz3E&#038;feature=player_embedded\">responds<\/a> to the Tory attack ads&#8230;just 2 short years after they first aired:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Dx8Q-9EWz3E&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Dx8Q-9EWz3E&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vwg9xQgqzy8&#038;feature=player_embedded\">my favourite<\/a> of the three, and the one I&#8217;ll ask you to grade. Of everything we&#8217;ve seen from the Liberal platform so far, Family Care is my favourite plank. It&#8217;s easy to understand and it connects to voters at the personal level &#8211; after all, who doesn&#8217;t have an aging or sick relative? <\/p>\n<p>And, like the policy, this ad connects at the personal level, with Ignatieff talking about his mother&#8217;s battle with Alzheimer&#8217;s. For a guy who has been portrayed as an alien in Tory attack ads, this will do a lot to humanize him. It shows the Liberals value family and it shows Ignatieff values family.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vwg9xQgqzy8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vwg9xQgqzy8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vote.php\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"tjnrpoqt\"><\/p>\n<table align=center style=\"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt\" width=304 border=1>\n<tr>\n<th align=center>How would you grade this ad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='1'> A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='2'> B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='3'> C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='4'> D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='5'> F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center><input type='submit' value=' Vote ! '><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center style='font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/tjnrpoqtsr.html\">See Results<\/a><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<p>And if you didn&#8217;t get a chance to grade the latest round of NDP commercials, just click <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/ad-watch-going-after-tim-hortons-crowd.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of new Liberal ads have hit the airwaves. In the first, Ignatieff talks a bit about his past, and ties it in to the Liberals&#8217; just launched pension policy: Then, Ignatieff responds to the Tory attack ads&#8230;just 2 short years after they first aired: Finally, my favourite of the three, and the one [&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":[1019,12,983],"tags":[1098],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-federal-election","category-ads","category-federal-politics","tag-michael-ignatieff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}