{"id":10356,"date":"2011-07-21T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2011-07-21T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:34:28","slug":"ontario-finance-minister-lashes-out-after-backroom-work-over-by-bare-knuckle-bruisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/21\/ontario-finance-minister-lashes-out-after-backroom-work-over-by-bare-knuckle-bruisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Finance Minister lashes out after &#8220;backroom work-over&#8221; by &#8220;bare-knuckle bruiser(s)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/Dwight+Duncan+strange+trip\/5134764\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Corcoran<\/a> admits to roughing up poor Dwight Duncan along with his fellow thugs in the <em>National Post<\/em> <strike><font color=\"red\">dungeon<\/font><\/strike> editorial board meeting last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Mr. Duncan said the <em>Post<\/em>, along with other Ontario newspapers, are part of what he described as an intellectually dishonest, right-wing, Rupert Murdoch, conservative cabal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Duncan, whose Liberal party faces what looks like a tough election this fall, had just been asked questions about Ontario&#8217;s alleged decline into &#8220;have-not&#8221; status. For some reason not explained, this line of questioning triggered a bizarre critique of Ontario&#8217;s newspapers and media: &#8220;The intellectual dishonesty, particularly of the right wing in this country, and the right-wing media, is they don&#8217;t tell the truth. It&#8217;s kinda like Rupert Murdoch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Not that the <em>Post<\/em> has been all that harsh of late. That editorial board meeting last Wednesday was a mild affair, a friendly exchange followed by polite banter, which Mr. Duncan said he enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>The next day the <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s editorial board produced an editorial of such modest criticisms and waffling ambiguity that the McGuinty Liberals could use excerpts as an endorsement. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Corcoran admits to roughing up poor Dwight Duncan along with his fellow thugs in the National Post dungeon editorial board meeting last week: Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Mr. Duncan said the Post, along with other Ontario newspapers, are part of what he described as an intellectually dishonest, right-wing, Rupert Murdoch, conservative cabal. Mr. Duncan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,28,53],"tags":[584,188,213,87,101],"class_list":["post-10356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-media","category-politics","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-electionwatch","tag-newspapers","tag-ontario","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2H2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10360,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}