Parts of this blog entry are Rated: GENERAL. No nudity. No swearing. Just idiocy.
Other parts are Rated: ADULT. Porn themes. Total idiocy. Hypocrisy. Bad journalism.
From my mailbag (I didn’t edit out the irrelevant parts because I bask in the warm glow of rare kudos):
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:37:00 -0400
From: Dean
Subject: Voter apathy
To: ProudToBeCanadian.caJoel,
…Ashley Herzog is a great catch! Excellent “to the point” writing style!
Morning laugh coming from various sources – http://ignatieff.me/
Keep up the great work!
Dean
From: “ProudToBeCanadian.ca”
To: “Dean
Subject: Re: Voter apathy
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:40 -0700
Thanks Dean. Re the Conservatives’ anti-Ignatieff campaign website —I had to laugh at how Don Martin, the intrepid NatPo columnist, found a way of linking it to “pornography” web sites, on the sound basis that they use an Arizona-based domain registrar, and what some guy told him (or what he refers to as “experienced web surfers”). Amazing! I take it they mean the Arizona-based GoDaddy.com, which is the largest and most commonly-used domain registrar in the world because they’re inexpensive and easy to use, and which I also use for my web site needs —including the registration of the domain ProudToBeCanadian, a domain name which no liberals ever even thought of registering —in Canada or anywhere else.
Joel
Don Martin, journalist, today:
The .me Internet domain name is registered to the tiny European country of Montenegro, incidentally governed by a coalition, and its Web administrator is based in Arizona. It is, I’m told by experienced Web surfers, often used to showcase pornography.
I’m quite sure that being the world’s biggest domain registrar and operating in a free country, it is in fact “often used to showcase pornography.” I’ve credibly argued that his part-time employer, the state-owned CBC, does too.
But anyway, I checked, and Ignatieff.me is in fact registered through GoDaddy and its GoDaddy-owned Domains by Proxy, Inc., which millions of web site owners including me use on some web sites to hide ownership information, and thus avoid the massive amounts of spam and hate mail. Their own spiel at GoDaddy.com:
Did you know that when you register a domain, your name, address, email address and phone number are immediately made available to anyone who wants to see them? That’s right. Your personal information is exposed 24 hours a day, everyday, to anyone, anywhere.
You have the power to change this. With a private (“unlisted”) registration through Domains By Proxy® (our affiliate company), registering a domain name doesn’t mean sacrificing your privacy.
Oh the humanity. Oh the pornography.
Oh the journalism.
And here’s some stuff from Don Martin’s own columnist employer, Canwest, which owns the NatPo and countless other media firms, via the Canwest-owned ShowCase channel:
Friday at 10pm ET/PT
Back for a highly-anticipated third season, Webdreams, the Gemini-nominated documentary television series, delivers ten new eye-popping episodes, delving even more deeply into the world of internet pornography.
Drawing from over six hundred hours of footage, Webdreams captures the glitter and grime of this multi-billion dollar industry, as seen through the eyes of six rousing new characters.
Paris is a star webcam girl who’s tempted to make the leap into hardcore porn; Her friend Jordan is already a successful entrepreneur, and has plans to take an even bigger piece of the webcam pie; Seven is also hoping to cash in, by combining two of his favorite things: hip-hop music and hardcore porn; Chris and Chad, both among gay porn’s biggest names, find themselves teamed up at Jet Set Productions; Canadian Fetish Queen Maxine X, with the help of her husband Scott, badly wants a taste of mainstream stardom; and Tommy Pistol, the alt-porn king of New York, is gambling that the director’s chair will lead to a new and brighter future.
Webdreams offers exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to every inch of these characters’ vibrant, vigorous lives: from the film sets and photos shoots, to the launch parties and trade shows, rehearsals, screenings, award ceremonies, and much, much more.
Wikipedia says this about Showcase:
… Since its launch, it has moved increasingly towards controversial and risqué fare. … The success of these rather risqué series have driven the service towards an even more edgy bent, with nearly all of its programmes now considered “adult” in one way or another… Overnight, Showcase shows a number of films and shows that could be considered soft porn, such as Red Shoe Diaries and Sin Cities…
Don Martin’s employer-owned Showcase and its sister Showcase Diva show all kinds of porn. One of the shows, “KINK” has a Wikipedia entry which ends with the helpful list as seen at left. The Wikipedia entry for “Webdreams” includes the iconic porn graphic at right. The show’s own website at Don Martin’s employer’s Showcase web site includes free videos of the Webdreams episodes, and carries this hideous warning (which far from preventing viewing by kids, actually helps kids know what to watch): “The following content contains scenes of coarse language, violence and sexuality, and is intended for mature audiences. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.”
Other Showcase shows include the likes of G-Spot, Wife Swap, Testees, Sin Cities, Sin Cities-Unleashed, Queer as Folk, Porno Valley, The L Word, Debbie Does Dallas Again, Keen Vs Spenny, and Big Love.
It seems Don Martin is more closely linked to “porn” than the Conservative Party supposedly is, according to his expert unnamed sources within the “experienced web surfer” set.
And more on-point, Martin should connect these dots, as I have here, countless times: Like nearly all Canadian or even remotely Canadian ventures of any kind, the end of Webdreams and other porn-centric “art” ends with this Soviet Union-style graphic: 
. And this is connected directly to LIBERALS.
From the producer’s web site:
WEBDREAMS is produced by Galafilm Inc. in association with Showcase, and with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry, CTF: License Fee and Equity Program, the Québec Film and Television Tax Credit administered by SODEC, and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.
Or maybe he actually thinks being purveyors of porn and smut are one of the yummy new core functions of government in the “progressive” Canada he apparently admires, and so he should therefore be congratulating the Conservative Party.
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