Overshadowed by the fooferaw caused by a pooping puffin last week was another part of the Conservatives' notaleader.ca Dion attack site. Called Dionbook, it claimed to be "A satirical look at the Liberal Party, Ottawa and Federal politics." And it went suspiciously missing late last week in the wake of Puffingate, as several bloggers and newspapers noted.
In addition to including parodies of Liberal bloggers among Dion's "supporters," the site listed "Let's bring the Taliban to Canada" and "I eat my hot dog with a knife and fork" among Dion's subscribed "groups." (See a jpeg of Google's last cached version of the site at right, minus the images, which were not captured by the cache - and click for a larger image.)
Hard to tell exactly which of the above attempts at humour was enough to cause second thoughts among the overseers of the Conservative war room. And if you're puzzling over the hot dog reference, mabye there's a clue in this interesting bit of Quebec election ephemera from a note on the CBC Digital Archives Facebook page, explaining why you won't see Quebec politicians eating hot dogs on the campaign trail.
I confess - sometimes the KISS approach makes a lot of sense.
I mainly "play" on Myspace - where much of the political stuff is focused - of necessity - on the Obama / McCain battle...
although my blogs - [a percentage of which give the Canadian viewpoint] are now being "pimped" uninvited by some shadowy Canadian pimping function...
In adding new functions / fixing old problems - it appears "Tom" the figurative founder of Myspace (as opposed to Rupert Murdoch - its financial owner) - it would appear that "Tom" has no alpha or for that matter beta site to test them before they get rolled out..so...like yesterday..."Tom" rolls out something new (whatever it was) and effectively locks everyone out for at least 12 hours...
Posted by: Wascally Wabbit | September 18, 2008 at 09:43 AM