Rob Ford endorsed by the blog that organized “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” contest
Targeting voters in the middle of the political spectrum might be the key to winning this year’s mayoral race. With five front runners, it’s nearly impossible for any of them to win a majority of votes, so even the leading candidate might want to try reaching across the aisle if he or she wants to garner more than 30 per cent.
Well that, or your supporters could just walk around calling David Miller and his allies on council “communists.” See video, left.
It’s important to note that Rob Ford‘s team isn’t attached with this, and candidates can’t reasonably be held responsible for the view of their more zealous supporters. In this case, the supporters are the folks behind Blazing Cat Fur, the blog that infamously ran a contest called “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” The blog basically comes off like a Glenn Beck rant without the sophistication of a chalkboard. Perusing Cat Fur’s offerings, we discovered the following items:
• The United States of America needs to be kept from becoming the United States of Arabia.
• Canada shouldn’t send flood aid to Pakistan.
• World War III started and nobody told us. But wait, this guy says it’s World War IV. Now we’re confused.
• “Bite me.”
Now, there is one interesting post at the top of the blog, notable because the author presents some evidence. Pointing to a comment left at Torontoist, it seems that someone on the Toronto Star‘s corporate network changed Rob Ford’s Wikipedia page, and not in a nice way: they added a since-shuttered satire blog as an “external link” and called it Ford’s “personal blog.” Just to be sure, they went back and corrected the capitalization 30 minutes later. We double-checked with Whois.com, and the IP address does indeed point to the Star.
According to Jackson Proskow, the Star is denying that the changes were made from a computer at the paper and are instead pointing to its parent company, which owns tons of other publications, including Sing Tao and Eye Weekly. Given that the Wikipedia changes were made between 8 and 9 p.m. on a Friday night, we’re pretty sure there’s nothing more sinister happening here than boredom at work. Still, the Star might want to encourage its staffers to play solitaire if they’re bored instead.
That was a great contest Johnny, pulled bigger numbers than your rag ever will.
A little context please. Taking out-of-context snippets of Blazing Cat Fur posts is something the Toronto Star would do. I expect better of Toronto Life.
In the interests of balance, I look forward to similar exposé’s of blogs supporting Pantalone and other candidates. On further investigation, you might just find that many of Pantalone’s supporters are indeed communists.
Toronto life is awesome. I read these articles and it makes me want to vote for Rob Ford more because the establishment, media, etc. seems to be against him. What are you guys afraid of? And who would you have us vote for instead? the only other real option is smitherman. So 1B of e-health boondoggle is less important then this BS you are posting to try to derail Rob Ford? Idiots.
Lmao, I love how Toronto life is failing at trying to pain Rob Ford as a type of “conservative capitalist”. This is so one-side, and such unfair journalism; no torontonian is going to fall for this…
McGrath
You truly are an angry Toronto Lifer. It is great to see the media, try as they might still cannot sway public opinion against Rob Ford. It is a tidal wave you cant stop!
“The folks behind” I love it. You guys are just so damned smart. Next you’ll be telling us how Toronto’s own Steve McIntyre is funded by Big Oil.
Little wonder that the rest of the Canadas scorn the dweebs who put this rag out and the city whose better postal codes have it dumped on their steps.
Whatever will you do if Ford wins? And, trust me, you’ll be unwelcome out West. Maybe vultch in America’s answer to Toronto – Cleveland.
Johnny what’s wrong? You got no Friends?
Rob Ford would allow more corruption in this city. I wonder if Blazing Cat Fur saw Visctoria Jackson’s song, ‘There’s A Communist Living In The White House.’
So your magazine is too cowardly to publish news items because it might offend some backward religion, and you have the nerve to critcize those who aren’t. I will relish the prospect of Mayor Rob Ford. He may not be great but he’ll piss off all the right people so that makes me a supporter.
So this is what Toronto Life has been reduced to? A series of sensationalist blogs about issues that you have no business or knowledge to be writing about.
I don’t know if a magazine should be campaigning for or against any mayoral candidate especially with cotton-candy fluff like this. This is what we expect from slanted, agenda-ridden outfits like Fox News…not in Canada.
Please stick to restaurant reviews and reporting on where the latest sales are…you’re much better at that. It makes your entire publication look bad when you comment on real news stories.
This is what Toronto Life is about now? Attacking a blogger who busts the Toronto Star with their hand in the cookie jar? The city of Toronto is awash in crime and corruption, and this is all you’ve got to write about?
Dude, are you kidding me?
Oh and by the way, Everybody Draw Mohamed Day was a JOKE, it was -one- cartoon drawn by some girl in San Francisco. It stayed a joke until the death threats started rolling it. I understand she’s now more or less in hiding, like Ayan Hirisi Ali but without the bodyguards. For a cartoon.
Three guesses where those death threats came from, first two don’t count. That’s whose side you are on, the side of maniacs who send girls into protective custody over a cartoon.
I’d boycott your rag, but I already don’t buy -any- media out of Toronto. You my friend, and all the others like you, are the reason why. Tell your boss that’s why his circulation is circling the drain, eh?
I wonder what Salman Rushdie would have to say about the blog since he was adopted by the champagne socialist set as a poster boy of free expression. Would you feel betrayed if he supported “Draw Mohammed Day?” Maybe you should ask him since he knows first hand what it means to “offend Islam.”
Stick to covering restaurants, celebrities and fashion trends. Toronto Life lost its newsworthy credibility a long time ago when it turned in the junior version of Hello Canada. Toronto Life ranks the same as ET Canada when it comes to serious issues.
I’m appalled by Ford’s comments. I firmly believe Ford’s comments are closed minded, ignorant, and offend the spirit of our great city.
Like his comments at the CP24 debate last night this is just another example of Ford’s attempt to undermine the well being of Toronto’s citizens.
Come to Nathan Phillips Square at 2pm today to express YOUR dissatisfaction with Ford.
Lets support those candidates like Rocco Rossi who promise conservative fiscal spending and support the values of our city. I’m voting Rossi for Mayor on October 25th!
What a load of politically correct drivel NotaBrainCell. Rob Ford is in fact working to improve the well being of Toronto’s citizens whereas Rossi is simply Miller Lite, part of the same old crowd that has allowed the unions, leftists and grievance mongers to financially rape Torontonians.
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Oh Christina I have listened to Victoria Jackson’s song – loved it in fact. You lefty poseurs really need to get a sense of humour.
Everybody Draw Mohammed day was actually the brainchild of a Seattle Washington Cartoonist named Molly Norris. She drew a cartoon suggesting it be held and it gained steam when a Torontonian woman (who is NOT the person behind Blazing Cat Fur) created a facebook group for the event that went viral.
Blazing Cat Fur’s contribution was to hold a competition for the best drawing on Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.
This is the second story in one day (The other being the erroneous “Ford against immigration”) that Toronto Life couldn’t even get the basic facts right about.
Gotta love Ford – he has Toronto Life frothing at the mouth and so apoplectic that they don’t even bother to find out basic facts before they smear Ford.
Ford is losing to someone that isn’t even running at this point. What a joke.
Have good information from a friend at Toronto Life that they’re planning a real hatchet-job cover story on Ford for their October issue. Apparently, it repeats every single allegation ever made against him from, like, Kindergarten to now.
Imagine how high that smear job will boost Ford’s support! lol
i would give rob ford a piece of my shoulder if i saw him coming in my direction but this piece is just an unnecessary hit-job.
you ought to be ashamed of this jeremiah wright shit.
Someone just sent me a link to rob ford’s new blog, http://www.blobford.com , its pretty creepy
Rob Ford is the only mayoral candidate who has promised that he will make sure that a gargantuan wind farm does not mar the eastern shore of Lake Ontario destroying the habitat for birds, bats and people, stirring up 50 years of toxins into our drinking water. (See windaction.com for facts on windfarms Toronto Hydro doesn’t want you to know.)The proposal was Smitherman’s pet project and he will make sure we are stuck with this obsolete, failed, dangerous technology for the next 20 years eventhough Europe is taking them down (but selling them to us)… shades of e-health misappropriation of money? Is Smitherman going to get a nice kick-back from Samsung (a Korean, not a Canadian company???).
When will the main stream media start reporting on the real issues and threats facing Toronto. I’m voting for Rob Ford to make sure that slimey Smitherman doesn’t get in! He has proven that he is untrustworthy.
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