{"id":3251,"date":"2012-03-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:30:00","slug":"damage-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Damage Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It remains to be seen just how involved the Conservative Party was in Robocon, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t help that they can&#8217;t keep their story straight. It was all <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/02\/24\/young-tory-staffer-michael-sona-becomes-first-victim-of-robocalls-revelations\/\">Michael Sona<\/a>, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/mike-duffy-points-finger-at-third-parties-amid-election-mischief-furor\/article2351305\/\">rogue third parties<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/pushing-back-on-robo-calls-tories-blame-liberals-for-electoral-mischief\/article2355453\/\">it was <em>the Liberals<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/pm-denies-tories-national-campaign-behind-robo-calls\/article2354744\/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&#038;utm_source=Politics&#038;utm_content=2354744\">the Tories had &#8220;absolutely, definitely&#8221; nothing to do with it<\/a>&#8230;yet they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/03\/02\/tories-review-tapes-at-thunder-bay-call-centre-as-questions-grow-over-companys-checkered-legal-history\/\">reviewing the tapes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clip below shows Dean Del Mastro being taken to task for spreading misinformation in the House. For anyone who enjoys watching Del Mastro squirm, this is must-see-TV.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"322\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/swf\/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&#038;clipId=2204340224&#038;width=480&#038;height=322\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/swf\/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&#038;clipId=2204340224&#038;width=480&#038;height=322\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\"height=\"322\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It remains to be seen just how involved the Conservative Party was in Robocon, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t help that they can&#8217;t keep their story straight. It was all Michael Sona, it was rogue third parties, it was the Liberals, the Tories had &#8220;absolutely, definitely&#8221; nothing to do with it&#8230;yet they&#8217;re reviewing the tapes. The [&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-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}