{"id":164,"date":"2006-05-06T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-05-06T06:10:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T11:10:17","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-propagandist-errrrr-pollster-like-allan-gregg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"When I Grow Up, I Want To Be A Propagandist … errrrr … Pollster, Like Allan Gregg!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Somehow, either through good luck or good management or voter ignorance, the Conservatives have been able to disassociate their decision in Afghanistan from their overall performance … in the province of Quebec.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Allan Gregg – From The Globe And Mail, May 6th, 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Is Allan Gregg for real?\u00a0 This man is the Chairman of the Strategic Counsel polling organization.\u00a0 How could he be so ignorant of the facts?\u00a0 In his quote above, he makes it sound like it was a Conservative decision to go to Afghanistan.\u00a0He also makes it sound like anyone who is supportive of the LIBERAL government decision to support the Afghanistan effort was either managed, lucky or ignorant.\u00a0 How insulting could he be?\u00a0 He should shave his goatee and go into hiding with comments like this.<\/p>\n

EXCUSE me Mr. Gregg, but Afghanistan is NOT Iraq.\u00a0 Our troops being there was a decision made while the LIBERALS were in power, supported by pretty much every member in the House of Commons after airplanes were used as bombs on September 11th, 2001.\u00a0 Do you remember this day sir?\u00a0 Apparently not.<\/p>\n

Your quote, and the Globe and Mail’s shameless promotion of\u00a0it by bolding it on page A9, today is blatant propaganda. The Tories have done nothing but\u00a0stand by\u00a0a decision made by Canada.\u00a0 How can our nation gain any national respect if we are to make commitments to a UN-mandated mission, and then back down when it is our turn to lead said mission?\u00a0 If we walk away from Afghanistan now, it would be the end of the relationship Canada carries around the world as a strong, principled nation that stands up to it’s commitment.<\/p>\n

I was disgusted and appauled by the comments made by Gregg.\u00a0 But I was just as disgusted by Richard Blackwell, the G&M reporter, for using the quote without qualifying it.\u00a0 Now I remember why I only read the G&M when I am stuck reading what hotels offer as I am this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Somehow, either through good luck or good management or voter ignorance, the Conservatives have been able to disassociate their decision in Afghanistan from their overall performance … in the province of Quebec.” Allan Gregg – From The Globe And Mail, May 6th, 2006 Is Allan Gregg for real?\u00a0 This man is the Chairman of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}