{"id":276,"date":"2008-09-16T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/election08.cusjc.ca\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:55:36","slug":"a-new-campaign-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"A new campaign game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Waddell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Thanks to Jane Taber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20080916.ELECTLIBERALS16\/TPStory\/?query=Jane+Taber\">in today&#8217;s Globe and Mail<\/a>\u00a0and Linda Diebel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/499873\">in today&#8217;s Toronto Star<\/a>\u00a0for giving us the material to play a new campaign game &#8211; match the person with the controversial comments he or she made that required that the newspaper grant the person anonymity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>The Players<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A source<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Dion insider<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Ottawa-based Liberal veteran<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A well-placed source<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One veteran MP<\/p>\n<p>One veteran Liberal MP<\/p>\n<p>A Toronto Liberal MP<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Their Comments<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No sense yet of \u201cany kind of mutiny\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDion is in another friggin\u201d world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simply too early in the campaign to write off Mr. Dion and the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ads were rejigged to suit the leader\u2019s preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nobody &#8211; nobody in charge except Dion and he isn\u2019t listening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dion has yet \u201cto get some traction with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have pros working for us, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDion is dragging us down\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Christopher Waddell is associate director of the school and a former Globe and Mail Ottawa bureau chief, former CBC-TV parliamentary bureau chief and election night executive producer for CBC TV News.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Waddell Thanks to Jane Taber in today&#8217;s Globe and Mail\u00a0and Linda Diebel in today&#8217;s Toronto Star\u00a0for giving us the material to play a new campaign game &#8211; match the person with the controversial comments he or she made that required that the newspaper grant the person anonymity. \u00a0 The Players A source A Dion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election2008","category-election-2008-media-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}