A couple of days ago, I mocked the state-run CBC division of Canada’s liberal-left for its duplicity in calling filthy hookers or prostitutes, “sex-trade workers”, as if sex was just another perfectly acceptable and noble “trade” like masonry or like being an electrician. That, I believe, is how liberals would like to portray prostitution, since they actually perceive it as such.
I noted how the “news” story “progressed” (or rather regressed) as the CBC “news” anchor tossed it to a “news” “reporter” who dutifully dubbed it “street-trade worker”, thereby making me laugh aloud and simultaneously establishing a new trade name which would have to (as one wily PTBC reader named Chris noted) compete with road construction crews for that honor. For my part, I predicted that this time next year, the “tradespeople” involved will be called “fellatio professionals”.
Today in the National Post, they covered a couple of bases.
Sex trade worker to report on Pickton trial
Ethan Baron, CanWest News Service
VANCOUVER – Editors at a Vancouver-based news website are seeking a prostitute or former sex-trade worker to report on Robert Pickton’s serial-killing trial.
Similarly, today is Thursday or the day after Wednesday. But quite apart from the trade moniker and make prostitution seem like an honorable “trade” agenda/game played by the liberal media (in preparation for their assignment to help liberals legalize it), the web site named “Orato” has decided that they needed a “reporter” to cover the Robert Pickton serial-killer story currently before the courts.
Orato’s editors believe they’ve found the right reporter for the job, which will be an unpaid internship position, but haven’t yet met her in person, Wallace said.
Wallace would not reveal the person’s name, because no decision has been made. But she did say the applicant was an advocate for sex-trade workers, and had once dumped 67 pairs of women’s shoes on the steps of Vancouver city hall to raise awareness about missing women.
It was Jamie Lee Hamilton, a transsexual prostitute and sex-trade activist, who dropped the shoes in 1998.
A reporter/advocate, hmm? Huh.
As I understand it, Jamie Lee Hamilton is a former prostitute and a man-who-became-a-woman. A transsexual. She was once charged with running a common bawdy house (otherwise known as a whore house), but the charges were stayed. The Vancouver Sun reported Ms. Hamilton used money from her government-funded “drop-in centre” called “Grandma’s House” (for “street trade workers”) to help finance her city council campaign in 1999 which she lost. She agreed to pay some of the money back.
Then she started something called the Tranny Shack which she described as “a support facility for transgendered people”, but which was also described in the Vancouver Courier newspaper as a place which “provided counselling and advice, including makeup and clothing tips, to those considering or in the midst of sex-change operations”, and which was later closed by Vancouver city officials after police visited it. Therefore, Jamie Lee Hamilton naturally accused the Vancouver Police Department of being “transexual-phobic”. Duh. (Hamilton leveled that charge against the police despite the fact the police officer involved in the visit was Det. Roz Shakespeare, Canada’s first transgendered police officer. That speaks volumes, on oh so many levels, but then this is liberal-leftist Vancouver where everything is relative, especially the morals).
She ran in Vancouver city’s elections last time around but mercifully lost. Apparently the whole damn city is “transexual-phobic”.
If you look her up, you’ll find that her motto on her blog is: “I believe you change the world one man at a time”. Or what liberals and its media call: “a perfect candidate and reporter!” Liberal Party prime ministers call her “senate material”, or “Gov-Gen shortlist”, and would kill to have her motto for their official state motto.
Who would hire such a person to be an objective “news” reporter as a part of what they describe as their team of “journalists”? Who’s in charge there at “Orato”?
The site’s editor-in-chief is Paul Sullivan, former managing editor at the Vancouver Sun.
He was also Western Editor of The Globe and Mail. And host of CBC Radio’s Vancouver morning show and Senior News Editor at The Journal, the highly-rated CBC-TV news program, among other things.
Well then. Good on him for finding another outlet for his “objective” “fair and balanced”, “non-agenda-driven” “news” “reporting” “trade”.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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