{"id":659,"date":"2006-01-02T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=659"},"modified":"2006-01-02T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:50:00","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncherniak.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/conservatives-hid-their-attack-ad.html\">Jason Cherniak <\/a>comes news that the Tories have <a href=\"http:\/\/nottawa.50megs.com\/conservativead.html\">begun the attack ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not on the CPC website yet, but someone has put the ad on-line. It basically has Paul Martin on a loop saying &#8220;the Liberal Party is not corrupt&#8221; while they show clips of Gomery and Dingwall. It&#8217;s strikingly similar to what I suggested the Tories do in my <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/election-strategery-tories_27.html\">pre-election preview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><em>Go for reality. Show clips of Sheila Fraser blasting the Liberals, a few &#8220;culture of entitlement&#8221; quotes, Jean Brault&#8217;s testimony, Dingwall holding up the gum packet, newspaper headlines about Volpe&#8217;s pizza party, and the Mr. Dithers economist article. End the commercial with a calming voice saying &#8220;there&#8217;s an alternative&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little noisy and they&#8217;ve re-used a lot of the same stuff from their &#8220;change&#8221; commercial, but they stuck to reality instead of wild accusations so there shouldn&#8217;t be any backlash. I&#8217;ll give it a thumbs up, although it&#8217;s far from a home run (<em>mixed metaphor alert..<\/em>.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jason Cherniak comes news that the Tories have begun the attack ads. It&#8217;s not on the CPC website yet, but someone has put the ad on-line. It basically has Paul Martin on a loop saying &#8220;the Liberal Party is not corrupt&#8221; while they show clips of Gomery and Dingwall. It&#8217;s strikingly similar to what [&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\/659"}],"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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}