{"id":12173,"date":"2011-09-23T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2011-09-23T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:06:56","slug":"blogger-raps-dred-fred-for-doublespeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/blogger-raps-dred-fred-for-doublespeak","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Raps Dred Fred For Doublespeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7196\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7196\" title=\"Mealy-Mouthed Mitchell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"Doublespeaking Fred Mitchell\" width=\"200\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mitchell.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mitchell-126x150.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a post titled, &#8220;MP changes story?&#8221;, Bahamas blogger Rick Lowe catches Opposition MP for Fox Hill, Fred Mitchell,\u00a0changing his story from saving City Markets through government <em>&#8220;intervention&#8221;<\/em> to saying he means the workers rights <em>&#8220;ought to be protected&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe points out that Mitchell originally told the press that the MP <em>&#8220;renewed his call for  intervention to save the beleaguered City Markets food store chain, telling the Tribune newspaper that the company was &#8220;worth saving<\/em>&#8220;.  Yet, in a long article in the Tribune, filled with quotes form Mr Mitchell, mention of the associates occurs only 3 times.  The focus of Mr Mitchell&#8217;s comments appear to be about saving the company through government  &#8220;intervention&#8221;. The MP would have people believe the opposite. But it&#8217;s not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he wishes to back away from this statement, it&#8217;s simple enough to  say so, rather than reducing the discussion to ad hominem attacks,&#8221; Lowe comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas blogger Rick Lowe catches Opposition MP for Fox Hill, Fred Mitchell, changing his story from saving City Markets through government &#8220;intervention&#8221; to saying he means the workers rights &#8220;ought to be protected&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,60],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-business-2","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}