{"id":35867,"date":"2016-09-23T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35867"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:10:07","slug":"qotd-the-medias-view-of-conservative-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/qotd-the-medias-view-of-conservative-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The media&#8217;s view of conservative leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s an ironclad rule of politics: the latest conservative standard-bearer is always a scary fascist who\u2019s going to end democracy as we know it. Meanwhile, the last conservative standard-bearer \u2013 preferably a defeated one \u2013 earns strange new respect from the commentariat.<\/p>\n<p>(This isn\u2019t just an American phenomenon. Mark my words: the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> columns declaring the next Conservative Party of Canada leader \u201cmore extreme than Stephen Harper\u201d are already written, with just the name to be filled in.)<\/p>\n<p>Damian Penny, <a href=\"https:\/\/damianpenny.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/22\/in-2016-there-really-is-a-wolf\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In 2016, there really is a wolf&#8221;, <em>Damian J. Penny<\/em><\/a>, 2016-07-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an ironclad rule of politics: the latest conservative standard-bearer is always a scary fascist who\u2019s going to end democracy as we know it. Meanwhile, the last conservative standard-bearer \u2013 preferably a defeated one \u2013 earns strange new respect from the commentariat. (This isn\u2019t just an American phenomenon. Mark my words: the Toronto Star columns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[6,28,53,41,13],"tags":[431,213,258],"class_list":["post-35867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-conservatism","tag-newspapers","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35867","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=35867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35868,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35867\/revisions\/35868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}