{"id":913,"date":"2006-04-24T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=913"},"modified":"2006-04-24T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T16:17:00","slug":"the-no-spin-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"The No Spin Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Emerson has back tracked <\/a>from comments he made referring to Harper as a “hard ass”.<\/p>\n

“I probably did say he was a hard-ass. It was meant as a compliment, not a criticism. If I call you a hard-ass I think you’re a pretty solid guy and you’ve got grit. If I call you a soft-ass or a candy-ass then I’m criticizing you,” Emerson said.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And people say David Emerson isn’t a politician? That’s the best darn spin I’ve heard in years.<\/p>\n

I think Emerson may be on to something. Just think about how other politicians could have used Emerson’s “it was a compliment” defense to their advantage in the past:<\/p>\n

When the Tory war room called Dalton McGuinty a reptillian kitten eater”:<\/strong>
They should have explained things like this: “Reptiles are some of the most evolved, powerful creatures in this world. They say a tortoise never forgets, and the crocodile is a fierce predator.”<\/p>\n

When Joe Volpe called the Conservatives Klansmen last year<\/strong>:
“I meant it as a compliment. A clan is a group of individuals united by kinship and descent. I was merely commenting on the bind which draws Tories together and how unified they appear to be as a caucus.”<\/p>\n

When Scott Reid said that “Alberta can blow” me during the election:<\/strong>
“Look, would I ask anyone<\/em> to blow me? It’s obviously a sign that I think very highly of Albertans and the skill set they posses.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Emerson has back tracked from comments he made referring to Harper as a “hard ass”. “I probably did say he was a hard-ass. It was meant as a compliment, not a criticism. If I call you a hard-ass I think you’re a pretty solid guy and you’ve got grit. If I call you a […]<\/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-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}