{"id":617,"date":"2009-03-24T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/24\/fox-news-host-apologizes-after-slamming-canadas-military\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T10:10:00","slug":"fox-news-host-apologizes-after-slamming-canadas-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/24\/fox-news-host-apologizes-after-slamming-canadas-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News host &quot;apologizes&quot; after slamming Canada&#8217;s military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives have long bristled at the fact that Canada decided not to join the US coalition in Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Fox News host Greg Gutfield &#8212; whose late-night show is intended to be a right-of-center counter to more liberal humor programs on TV &#8212; said that the Canadian military \u201cwants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Isn&#8217;t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?  They have no army.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gutfield uncorked that bit of yuk-yuk at a time when Canada was reeling from another round of fatalities in Afghanistan.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090323.wfoxapology0323\/BNStory\/International\/home\">His apology<\/a>:  &#8220;I realize that my words may have been misunderstood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Peter MacKay had demanded an apology, as four more dead soldiers were being returned to Canada.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt&#8217;s crass, it&#8217;s insensitive, it&#8217;s in fact disgusting, given the timing,\u201d Mr. MacKay told CTV News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives have long bristled at the fact that Canada decided not to join the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}