{"id":852,"date":"2007-06-20T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2007-06-20T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:55:40","slug":"ctv-pulls-a-fast-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"CTV Pulls A Fast One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the issue of the &#8220;support our troops&#8221; decals has become front and centre on a national level.  The boycott of Toronto is growing.  And in an effort to stifle the support for our troops, the CTV has made a mockery of the question as indicated by the image below which shows their poll today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image851\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/troopsupport.jpg\" alt=\"Troop Support Poll on CTV\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The way this is poll is worded is quite misleading.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image853\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/troopsupport2.jpg\" alt=\"Troop Support Poll on CTV2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The issue today is not to question the use of decals on city vehicles for &#8220;causes&#8221; but for our troops.  Our troops are NOT a cause.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that with such an ambiguous question, I myself would vote no.  But if you change the word causes to troops, you can guarantee that the results would be far different.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you CTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the issue of the &#8220;support our troops&#8221; decals has become front and centre on a national level. The boycott of Toronto is growing. And in an effort to stifle the support for our troops, the CTV has made a mockery of the question as indicated by the image below which shows their poll [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,35,57,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armed-forces","category-msm-bias","category-polls","category-the-big-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}