{"id":20472,"date":"2013-05-29T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20472"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:37:28","slug":"qotd-its-time-to-go-rob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/qotd-its-time-to-go-rob\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: It&#8217;s time to go, Rob"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yes, the media is out to get Rob Ford. It&#8217;s politics. Most hacks are not militantly left-wing, though their political assumptions are broadly statist. What almost all successful reporters have, no matter what their political inclinations, is a sixth sense about good copy. They can smell blood from miles away. Even the most right-leaning member of Ford Nation, who has a slight tinge of journalistic ability, can sense Rob Ford is a headline generating machine. More than that he generates the right kind of headlines: Cheap, simple and easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a big fat white guy who keeps getting himself into trouble. The man is an elected Fox sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why he has to go. Hopefully to be replaced by someone with his values but also with a modicum of common sense. When faced with allegations, whether absurd or serious, the instinctive reaction of the Mayor has been to whine like a petulant child and to blame a vast-left-wing conspiracy. It never seems to have occurred to the Mayor, who has a penchant for self-pity, that this same media complex is also besieging Tim Hudak, Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, John Baird and Danielle Smith. Whatever you think of those politicians, each is enough of a professional to deal with the media they&#8217;re stuck with, rather than wish for a media that has never existed.<\/p>\n<p>For the good of Toronto, Rob Ford needs to go.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Anderson, <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2013\/05\/he-needs-to-go.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;He Needs To Go&#8221;, <em>The Gods of the Copybook Headings<\/em><\/a>, 2013-05-29<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the media is out to get Rob Ford. It&#8217;s politics. Most hacks are not militantly left-wing, though their political assumptions are broadly statist. What almost all successful reporters have, no matter what their political inclinations, is a sixth sense about good copy. They can smell blood from miles away. Even the most right-leaning member [&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":[6,28,53,41],"tags":[213,636,413,207],"class_list":["post-20472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-newspapers","tag-robford","tag-scandal","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472","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=20472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20473,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions\/20473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}