166 Replies to “Not Watching For The Asteroid”

  1. Kate,
    I can see the hedline for tomorrow’s papers:
    Jack Off message? Ooops, I mean: Jack Off Massage!
    Too sticky? Perhaps.

  2. “Jack off message” is funny enough all by itself. Maybe not as good as “premature Jack Layton” but its up there.

  3. Hey,
    Has anybody asked Jack if he claimed his massage on his City Councillor health plan?

  4. Yeah, remarkable that CBC can sit on a story for 15 years and Sun gets it out in 15 days.

  5. Watch Liberal Media ala CTV and CBC bury this story so deep it’ll meet their moral compass in the dirt?

  6. BOOM!
    What a long way we have come from the coffee shop talk as the main medium for which political gossip is spread. Wouldn’t it be funny if the social media that Jack has embraced so much (like those annoying youtube commercials) comes back to bite him in the backside?

  7. Re: Private@3:22 a.m.
    You know, that’s just the sort of thing an “entitled to my entitlements” lefty would do – submit a receipt for reimbursement. Wonder if there’s anyway to check City Council records before Tuesday?

  8. The legacy media can’t bury the reference to the story, but, with the notable exception of Sun, they are going heavy on the denials, and painting Layton as a victim, while comprehensively eliding the actual facts and evidence and circumstances and details that necessitated the denials in the first place. Olivia Chow, for example, is quoted just about everywhere:

    No one was more surprised than my husband when the police informed him of allegations of potential wrongdoing at this establishment.”

    As is Layton’s lawyer:

    “The facts are that Mr. Layton had obtained a massage from a massage therapist, but had no knowledge whatsoever that the therapist’s location may have been used for illicit purposes.”

    What the legacy media isn’t covering at all is the fact that even if you take every single one of the denials completely at face value, and assume that he’s telling the absolute truth — that he visited an Asian-crime-connected house of prostitution completely inadvertently — it still leaves a very serious and troubling issue: If Jack Layton, a city councilor at the time who lived in downtown Toronto just a short distance away from the joint in question, was completely unaware of the fact that legitimate RMTs don’t typically have their clients lie naked on mattresses (as opposed to massage tables) in rooms with glass panels that allow the proprietor to check on his “workers” to see if they’re in danger, or whether they’re performing more expensive acts and keeping the profits, on the secretive second floor of a dingy place above a bookstore, this raises very, very serious questions about his judgment, particularly in light of the fact that he’s within arms length of the levers of power of a G8 nation.
    This issue isn’t a joke, it’s about the judgement and general wherewithal of a guy who has a shot at being our PM. For that reason – and this is a side note – I really wish that a particular group of eight or ten regulars here — all of them male — who use this story as an opportunity to serially deliver dumb, un-funny, prurient puns would just can it.
    Enough already with the “Jack off” crap. Every conceivable dumb permutation has been stated and repeated already.
    COAB.

  9. The “three little words” are now showing at Goggle “jac”, never seen that before but suppose it must have happened before with something …

  10. “Premature Jack Layton”
    Kathy Shaidle – author of the best “Jack-off” quip of the lot – will be shocked to learn that she’s no longer female, EBD.
    I don’t come to SDA for lectures on etiquette from on high. While you’re quite correct to point out that this is indeed a very serious issue, it’s also a humourous one; I, at least, laughed a great deal at many of the “Jack-off” comments from aforementioned nondescript delinquent “males”.
    You don’t like it? I’m betting that makes you an SDA minority. Again.

  11. Yeah, well, Kathy also has something to say on issues, Incisor. Like Kate – or commenters Rita, or batb – she typically doesn’t cover an issue by compulsively wallpapering with a series of bad puns while – and this is the key part – ignoring the real-world implications of the issue.
    In this thread, for example, the topic is the fact that the legacy media can no longer completely bury an inconvenient story. I addressed the topic, and added as a *side note* – I used the phrase – that I wish certain guys would stop it with the retarded and obvious attempted puns.
    Look at all of Kate’s posts on this “incident”: every single one of them has POV, and an incisive point to make. Prurient, un-funny, senseless, compulsive, serial “bar-har-har” punning is ultimately off-topic and supplants the issue at hand.
    One more thing: if a pun is both obvious and dumb, it’s not actually a pun.

  12. Mao Stlong Lepolt.
    Clime Time goody. How many massage you wan?
    H/T Moi nephew, Liberal leader Bob Rae.
    …-
    “He did not provide any names, but implied that China was one of those foreign governments.”
    “Foreign interference continues to pose an ongoing threat to Canada’s sovereignty and national security, the head of CSIS says in a confidential report.
    “These clandestine efforts by foreign governments to influence our officials, policies and communities have the potential to undermine our ability to make independent decisions in Canada’s national interests,” CSIS director Richard Fadden wrote in a report to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
    Fadden also writes in the heavily censored report, obtained by The Canadian Press, that those targeted may be “subject to threats, coercion or potential blackmail.”
    “Foreign Influence ‘Ongoing Threat’: CSIS
    Jan 7th 2011”
    http://news.aol.ca/2011/01/07/foreign-influence-ongoing-threat-csis/19791453
    …-
    “Jean Chretien and the Sidewinder Report
    By Ann Jane Gray
    In this WatchDog article, I will examine Prime minister Jean Chretien’s connections to those companies and individuals mentioned in the Sidewinder Report. The Sidewinder Report, as readers recall, examined links of Chinese-triads and the Chinese government to Canadian-based corporations.
    Jean Chretien’s employment by Gordon Capital from 1986-1990 was his first public association with individuals identified by the Sidewinder Report as a threat to Canada’s public security. Chretien’s position as an advisor was a lucrative one and left him a wealthy man.
    Chretien’s ties to Gordon Capital continue to this day, in the person of Marc Fung, son of Gordon Capital’s former vice-president during Chretien’s tenure, Robert Fung. Marc Fung travelled with the federal Liberals on Team Canada trips to Asia and was, as of May 2002, an aide in the Prime Minister’s Office.
    Gordon Capital is one of the financial companies used in the Sidewinder Report as a case study on the links between China, Hong Kong billionaires and Canadian financial institutions that are “clearly worrying for Canada’s national security”. The RCMP’s concern arose over Li Ka-Shing, the father of the owner of the company, Richard Li.”
    http://primetimecrime.com/contributing/2005/20050120Gray.htm

  13. EBD has just had his Damascene moment! Next thing he’ll be asking us to give absolution to Layton. After all the man is basically an atheist, how can we hold him to the same standards we as Christians hold? By the way, EBD, I’m a Catholic, not a Puritan! Just what did you expect, an essay on the Fall of Man and the meaning of sin?

  14. Taliban Jack was never outed because the Canadian MSM is corrupt.
    The Corrupt Chretien / Martin Liberal regime enjoyed the same wilful blindness as they afforded Jack Layton.
    Good on Sun TV and the bare armed female staff!

  15. Boom! Winning.
    In response to EBD. After listening to retarded Jack dump all over the people that get up in the morning and pay for retarded people like Jerk *** Layton. Bart Simpson’s sums it up best. “To cool for school man.”
    Also a quote from Homer Simpson works to. “Back to your bong Hippie.”

  16. The g-search in the videos first result says that JL denies the allegations. That is not what he says in the video statement he gave. Nowhere in the statement HE gave in BC does he deny the incident happened. He just claims it to be old time politics.

  17. Well, Jack can’t deny something if he’s pictured caught in the act now can he? That would mean he’d have to give up his mantra as an honest politician.

  18. I would probably have given him the benefit of the doubt if it were not for the fact that he’s a professional politician, for whom lying (no pun intended) comes (again, no pun intended) naturally.

  19. Google seems to have switched their allegiance to the NDP. Last week there was a large number of Liberal party ads embedded on their news site. In the past few days, since the orange crush meme started, the ads appear to have switched in favour of the NDP.
    It also seems, to me, that there is an inordinate frequency of embedded ads for the NDP within misc YouTube videos.
    Why would Google embed a political endorsement by a trades union on their news site? Or any other form of advocacy?

  20. It could all be settled if the “regestered massage therapist” came forward and said it was a legatimate massage. I am sure a “professional” would have his name on record, address, time, date, area of treatment, number of visits etc…. and a business licance in building regestered in city hall.
    There; now it is up to Jack to get that information public as soon as possable. If he can not, then let the press have its way. He might become “religious” right now, “praying” that she come forward and tell what happened. I am quite sure the police have her name on record in the same police report.
    These are the questions that must be answered – yet the MSM will not ask one of these questions – except perhaps Sun TV.

  21. For those here — and in the media, ahem, Andrew Coyne (who’s too closely allied to the Trudeau thing, vis a vis his niece, Sarah Elisabeth Trudeau-Coyne, to be in any way objective) — who think that it’s lewd and rude of SunTV to break this story, there’s a lot more here than meets the eye.
    IMO, SunTV’s breaking this story isn’t chiefly about Jack’s moral “lapse” by exposing himself in a “massage parlour.” It’s actually about his and Olivia’s troubling connections to dubious outfits which, I suspect, have the potential of compromising Canada’s security. The whole Layton-Chow Chinese Connection, CSIS’s concerns about foreign government interference in Canadian politics, Sidewinder, etc., etc. should raise a few eyebrows — and an urge by members of the Canadian media to investigate a little deeper.
    ‘Only problem is, with the exception of Lord Black and his National Post, investigative reporting is as dead as a doornail in the legacy media in Canada except when it comes to the CPC.
    Thank God for SunTV that’s willing to do the necessary dirty work. And who cares if Andrew Coyne’s offended?

  22. I like how the MSM leave out the cops comments about soiled Kleenex Tissues, did JackOff have a bad cold that day, maybe it was a Sinus Massage instead of fake Shiatsu massage. Jack was exploiting an illegal immigrant or refugee for cheap sex is the real story.

  23. Kady O’Malley was questioning if this were in the “public interest” to be released – yet when asked if Bathroom gate (G20 photo missed by PM) was in public interest – her response
    He did miss the photo because he was in the bathroom, do you think we shouldn’t have reported it???
    HUH??

  24. Sue Ann Levy was calling him Bicycle Jack yesterday, and her column reveals the ‘entitlement’ mentality of the hypocrite. I’m of the opinion that the police report (NOT alleged incident Fifer) is only part of the Layton story that needs to be told. He has had a free ride for too long.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/28/levy-bicycle-jack-a-national-problem
    My other concern is that this will be handled by the lefties the same way they responded to Clinton …snicker-snicker
    But as Alberta Girl notes…PM Harper had to use the loo!!…sacndalous!

  25. Can we now expect that rub n tugs will be covered undered OHIP?
    Did Jack check to make sure the place was unionized, first?
    Or that there were any under-agers or illegal immigrants.
    Maybe it part of his family reunification scheme.

  26. This is reminding me of when Sven Robinson was caught stealing. The media tried to be so sympathetic, but we all knew it wasn’t the first time. It was just the first time he got caught. Same with Jack Layton. Count on it.
    Illegal is as illegal does.

  27. Correction to above post @ 7:52 AM: Deborah Coyne, mother of Sarah Elisabeth Coyne and Pierre Elliot Trudeau, is Andrew Coyne’s cousin.

  28. ANOTHER CORRECTION: Deborah Coyne is mother of Sarah Elisabeth Coyne and wife of PET!!

  29. The little bantam cock of the walk got caught being the little “orange lush” he is, hypocrite, like all the Coynes Fifee’s etc. But Harper going to the bathroom, or eating a wafer, or worse yet, being an honest business minded man who has a wife and two fine children trying to run the biggest business in Canada, Canada, well we here in the Canadian MSM think your scary Mr. Harper. No “scary folks” is a smarmy little rooster who hangs out with the wrong people in the wrong places with to much knowledge and no brain to store it in! Your day is over MSM, you will see Mon. night, you have been so corrupt to a good man all while giving this little POS a daily pass, aiding and abbetting this creep is nothing to be proud of journalistically if there is such a thing.

  30. Do you think that Jack! would be able to obtain a security clearance with this hanging over his head? Should he actually need one? He is compromised now.
    There are a lot of unanswered questions raised that I do hope that Sun News will start to ask over the weekend and into next week or for as long as it takes to peel back the layers of jack Layton and the NDP in this country.
    Here’s a quote of how Jack! thinks:
    “…What about the legitimacy of the democratic process, yeah, what about it?…”
    http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2008/11/transcript-of-ndp-conference-call/
    Read it all if you want an inside look at Jack Layton in action, while he attempts to do a back-door take over of a legitimately elected government. Ask yourself what he’s sold you out for to get Quebec votes for his Party this time around, to do it all over again.
    Tell yourself that “he’s a nice guy”. Yeah, Layton and Mulcair – Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.
    Jack Layton: commie country wrecker. He’s a One Worlder wonderboy. Just what this country needs right now.

  31. Oh, for crying out loud (I guess I need more coffee or maybe I should just go back to bed …): Deborah Coyne is Andrew Coyne’s cousin and was Pierre Trudeau’s lover.
    Yikes.

  32. EDB is right of course, but that didn’t stop me from yukking it up last night on twitter (@chadvector). It was immature but extremely fun just watching the hatred in the responses from NDP supporters.
    But in the harsh light of day, this is much more than an embarrassing scandal. Organized crime, extortion, lack of character and judgement — it’s all in play against Layton.
    The champion of the downtown Toronto poor didn’t know about rub and tugs while on city council? Baloney. I was a naive farm kid in Winnipeg at the time, and I heard whispered tales about going “shiatsus”, wink-wink.

  33. Meanwhile at a To rally, Jennifer ItchBurn has to ask Harper what would be wrong with an NDPEE govt. These reporters are just Stupid, no other way to explain these clowns. “Jack the Dripper” gets a pass while Harper is made to run the hot coals, Go Figure Canada.

  34. Let me see if I have this straight.
    Jack, who together with his wife, make 150K per year and is so concerned with spending money that he lives in subsidised low income housing, goes for a legitimate massage where he can’t get a receipt that his insurance company reimburse the fee.
    Perhaps that is the question SUN should be asking – “Mr. Layton, did you get receipts from this massage parlour and if so, did your medical insurance cover the cost.”
    If the answer is no, there is proof he knew what kind of place it was.

  35. I must respectfully disagree with EBD regarding the numerous puns and slightly off color comments. I think it is fairly well ackowledged that any legitimate event that causes ridicule undermines the persons credibility. Jack has handled this thing badly. Any time a scandal rears its head the first thing to do is ackowledge your mistake, context it (this happened a long, long time ago and has never happened since) and then apologize. To not take ownership like he did, issue an accusation of a smear through his wife and then have his water carriers in the media provide cover is exactly the best way to make sure it will not die and give license to everyone to ridicule him. And that is what is happening.

  36. Find the masseuse. Was she here illegally making tax free money as she’s pimped by Chinese gangs?

  37. Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
    Here’s Chris Selley’s take on Leni … er, I mean Layton and what he and his NDP have in store for Canadians.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/29/chris-selley-leader-profile-%E2%80%94-jack-layton/
    We’ll be broke the day after the election, and with his plan to take Canada out of NATO and NORAD, we’ll be vulnerable to every international thug regime going.
    Under Jack: O Canada, the true North weak and enslaved.

  38. Smear? I’ll give you a smear headline. How about “Unionized Metro Cops Give Socialist Councillor Free Pass In Chinatown Brothel Bust”?

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