{"id":3210,"date":"2008-11-25T08:18:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/25\/lizard-people-again\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:18:13","slug":"lizard-people-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/25\/lizard-people-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lizard People&#8221;, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering if the &#8220;Lizard People&#8221; ballot had been referenced on wikipedia yet.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lizard_People#Politics\">Of course it has<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But really, the other impact\u00c2\u00a0the &#8220;Lizard People&#8221; have made on the world of electoral polics is much more interesting.<\/p>\n<p><em>During a provincial election in <\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/font><em> on <\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>September 12<\/em><\/font><em>, <\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>2003<\/em><\/font><em>, the <\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>Progressive Conservative Party<\/em><\/font><em> disseminated a press release describing <\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>Liberal Party<\/em><\/font><em> opposition leader <\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>Dalton McGuinty<\/em><\/font><em> as an &#8220;<\/em><font color=\"#002bb8\"><em>Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet<\/em><\/font><em>&#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now THAT&#8217;s a Zinger!\u00c2\u00a0 The greatest political punch in the modern era.\u00c2\u00a0 I know Ralph Nader was campaigning against a sound-byte culture, hence the &#8220;performance art&#8221; display of one word press conference, but I think Nader would have done well to shelve those misgivings and &#8212; in order to cut through the media block-out of his and other third party candidacies &#8212; come out against Obama and McCain as part of the &#8220;Two Party Evil Reptilian Kitten-Eater From Another Planet Duopoly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering if the &#8220;Lizard People&#8221; ballot had been referenced on wikipedia yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course it has.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But really, the other impact\u00c2\u00a0the &#8220;Lizard People&#8221; have made on the world of electoral polics is much more interesting. During a provincial election in Ontario, Canada on September 12, 2003, the Progressive Conservative Party disseminated a press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}