The above image was taken from this post at Jason Cherniak's website. I took a screenshot of his blog, just in case it's removed.
The image posted appears to come from Valentin Erikson, a parliamentary staffer with the Conservative Party.
Unfortunately there are two very peculiar elements in this "evidence".
The first, is only the first name is highlighted blue as a hotlink to his facebook profile. Facebook highlights the entire name in messages posted. I'm too lazy to post a screenshot of that right now, but you can go look for yourself.
The second, is the time: 19:32am. This makes no sense. 19:32 would be PM.
If I had to guess, somebody captured the HTML from facebook, modified it, and then took a screenshot of it.
Unfortunately they did a very sloppy job.
Jason Cherniak asks:
What are the Conservatives going to do about this?
Umm, let's see: hire Mr. Erikson a lawyer, and file a libel claim?
Update: Kate points out that the siege on the Estonian embassy was in April 2007. The comment was dated November of 2006, which completes the triangle of mistruth surrounding this ordeal.
Update 2: Jason Cherniak says he's "gone back to the source of the image for clarification". So at least we know now that Jason doesn't check his sources when it comes to smearing political opponents. He's also fine with people calling opponents of Section 13(1) of the Human Rights Act, Nazi sympathizers, by the way.
Update 3: Jason's source "Marcus" has had an inconvenient hard drive crash, and therefore, further evidence is "missing". He admits to editing the time stamp (why the hell would you do this?), but fails to explain the anomaly with the hyperlink (the last name is solid black).
Update 4: Jason expands on the previous explanation he offered from Marcus, which still cannot be substantiated. On a side note: I have been doing digging throughout Facebook and can find no evidence whatsoever that Valentin even logged into Facebook on February 20th 2008. There is no activity on his profile on that day, nor can I find activity from him on that day elsewhere.
You see, Jason is going to continue to publish this material simply on his friend's word, despite all the doubt which has been cast around it. Jason feels that this is an acceptable level of proof to support attributing a quote to someone, who denies saying it.
If I were Jason, I would retract the post pending real evidence. Marcus also needs to admit to fudging this "evidence" and apologize, or show us the meat. Giving us a dog-ate-my-homework story is not going to cut it, when it comes to character assassination and the accusation of impropriety on the part of someone, which could cost someone their job.
Update 5: APOLOGY AND RETRACTION
Jason Cherniak Issued the following statement on his blog:
Over the past few days I have written extremely critical comments about a Parliamentary staffer named Valentin Erikson. I now realize that my posts were based on factual inaccuracies, and my comments weren't fair. I have therefore taken down my blog posts on the subject.
Besides retracting my statements, I would like to offer my sincere apology to Mr. Erikson for any embarrassment I have caused him.
I do not think that Cherniak and his friend should use someone’s national origin or political affiliation and act according to the principle: you are guilty until proven otherwise.
Jason, you do not have to have this “parl” account to log on facebook.
Nobody really cares about what Jason Cherniak thinks.
Instead of fabricating evidence and personally attacking someone, Jason Cherniak should first understand what is going on.
Valentin Erikson should probably himself hire a lawyer and file a libel claim against Cherniak and whoever is behind all this.
Mike, it appears that the commentor was psychic... from what I can pick up from Google, the seige of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow happened in April of 2007.
The comment is dated 2006...
"What are the Conservatives going to do about this?"
I wonder what Cherniak is going to do when his bosses figure out what an incompetent he is!
Get him a job fetching coffee for David Dingwall, that's what.
Jason Cherniak's reputation is going down!
Jason Cherniak has a reputation? I thought EVERYBODY knew Jason was a Liberal water boy.
I'm not too sure about that 2006. According to the Facebook Origins background:
Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. Networks were then initiated for high schools and some large companies. Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to users with any email address...
So Facebook wasn't open to non-student users until then, several months after Feb 2006
I think the blurry pixels and with a 0 beside the 8, it makes the 8 look like a 6 by "stretching" out the left side of the number. I think it was posted Feb. 20 2008 but that 24Hr time stamp with the AM looks peculiar
"Jason Cherniak has a reputation? I thought EVERYBODY knew Jason was a Liberal waterSPORTS boy."
There - fixed it for you.
Looks like Chernyuk has been punk'd. The good kind of punk'd, not the skanky pretend you're a holocaust victim kind.
I can't say I'm a fan of Jason's but if we stop feeding the troll he will starve to death.
Once again, the sage counsel of Cherniak's law school mentor is invoked,
"Well, Your Honor. We've plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence."
Maybe the same schools that teach Hisbullah & Hamas how create fake news items have morphed into the Liberal Party media department ?
Jason Jer-n-wack porn-surfer-extraordinaire at it again?
He should juts stick to whacking in private from now on or risk further public humiliation.
hahahahahahahahhahaha
I know why doesn't he hire Kinsella the nazi hunter to defend him. I am sure in between shit house inspections he could find the time to help his buddy dumber get to the bottom of this.
LIBERAL VAUDEVILLE @ its finest!
One must wonder just what Jason Nyuk-Nyuk plans to do with himself when and if he ever grows up.
Way to go law boy...I haven't laughed this hard in awhile.
'Jason takes no responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any comments.'
- no schitt. Too bad I had to scroll all the way down to the bottom of his blog to see that. Mind you, the quality research behind the offending post should have tipped me off.
Hahaha...
I have a "source" that gave me this evidence...
I have a "source" that was investigating this porn site...
I reserve this comment for people such as this (it is really my favorite):
What a douche-bag. A real bag-of-douche!
Seen at the bottom of his page - 'Jason takes no responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any comments.'
"I do apologize for any confusion and take full responsibility."
Spoken like a true Liberal - out of both sides of his mouth. ;)
JC has no credebility, none!
Mike, I'm no expert on FaceBook but doesn't one only get the "delete" option with one's own posting?
Scrap that - Marcus is the administrator of the Facebook group. So he would have the "delete" option.
No, Jan, you can delete comments other people leave on your Facebook page.
I can't believe how stupid Jason was in this incident. He's posted his explanation online. Here it is in its entirety because fair dealing in this instance requires his comment to be dismantled and criticized:
For clarity, all comments above in brackets [] are mine. They are my opinion mixed in with a heavy dose of sarcasm.
Has anyone else tried to re-create what Jason explained? I've tried highlighting, copying and pasting someone's comments from a Facebook group into Word. Two peculiar things happen:
First, the Word-pasted comment looks almost nothing like the Facebook posting. The gray/blue background colour disappears, and the font is different. It also gets forced into an ugly table format. Nothing like the image Jason posted.
Second, when you push backspace at the end of a hyperlinked blue name (typical with Microsoft software), the link (and therefore blue text) disappears and turns black. In the image posted by Jason, only the last name's link disappeared - the first name remained blue.
Does anyone else get different results? The only other explanation was that this was photoshopped, and not modified in Word.
Now that's better, Jason, from a legal point of view:
Quick, someone grab that before he deletes it too, like he's deleted everything else! I wonder if the fear of a lawsuit suddenly took hold of Jason? Methinks yes.
Yes, I tried doing it with two different browsers - Firefox give me text only - Explorer gives a little more detail (boxed and links show up as links) but it seems to me that if that is how Marcus captured the "evidence" he would have had to recreate it to provide it to JC in the format posted.
Yep.
You can't copy-paste from a page like that into word, you need a screen capture utility to capture all or part of the screen, or just hit the print-screen button, which captures the whole display into the clipboard, which can then be pasted into word or edited further with an image editing program.
JC is a horses ass of monumental proportions, eclipsed only by his mentor, WK the bathroom lurker.
"Besides retracting my statements, I would like to offer my sincere apology to Mr. Erikson for any embarrassment I have caused him."
Jason, you only embarrassed yourself! Valentin Erikson should be promoted for what he's been through.
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i just love how things are never actually ever cherniak's fault.
it actually brings a smile to my face... as he starts to awkwardly bob and weave... and spin his hapless tales.
let me explain...
back in the mid nineties... "someone" chucked a complete roll of toilet paper into our crapper.
when i rounded up the "usual suspect"... to try to impress the gravity of the offense upon his be-diapered self... my young son very quickly dimed out his best friend and constant companion, aka "white bear".
to be absolutely fair, i thought it was a pretty impressive performance for someone who had, only very recently, begun speaking in complete sentences.
that's what i think of... every time jason tries to explain away his latest idiocy.
jason cherniak makes me laugh.
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haha...
Welcome to Liblogs/Bienvenue à Liblogues:
http://www.liblogs.ca/news.cgi?12
"... the graphics are designed by Marcus Kolga, President of Real World Pictures. ... Jason Cherniak, who runs a website called Liblogs..."
Apparently, this Marcus Kolga guy designs not only liberal blogs.
Next time liberals should think twice before hiring "new media consultants"
and creators of incompetent design:)
Help, I Can't Stop Laughing!
Marcus and Jason= Kate and Warren
:)
In Jason's zeal to drag the Tories' name into the mud, he only managed to discredit his friend Marcus Kolga. At first he believes and even defends Kolga's version of events, then suddenly he posts a retraction.
So Jason, your friend Marcus can't be trusted? Got it. And I was actually considering renting Kolga's film Gulag 113. I guess I'll think twice now, since he's obviously untrustworthy.
So this Marcus guy is the guy that did this piss poor hack of a screen grab?
This jpg edit is so amateurish practically screams out FAKE.
But I do admit, it is hilarious watching the lib's getting SO desperate that they'll try and hang anything they can on the CPC, be it some two bit hack like this or trying to dredge up something against a former PC Prime Minister that today's CPC party had nothing to do with.
What a train wreck..
Jason Cherniak and Markus Kolga are idiots:)
These people really destroyed their reputation... I also heard about Marcus Kolga's film Gulag 113, but after this incident I will not be able to trust this guy. NEVER! And Jason Cherniak should close his blog and stop humiliating himself.
"In Jason's zeal to drag the Tories' name into the mud, he only managed to discredit his friend Marcus Kolga. At first he believes and even defends Kolga's version of events, then suddenly he posts a retraction."
Well said!
Um.. did anybody ever expect more of the great CHUR-e-yak? Soon as he admitted his main goal in life was to become a liberal MP in one of those riding where you can run a goat and have it elected, I hear immigrants like eating goat anyways. But we got lots of people here too 'on the inside' whereby their entire life revolves around kissing the ring.
The last time I met a Jason this stupid and one-dimensional, he was wearing a goalie mask.
有位美女在公共汽车上看到一位即将下车的男人掉了包烟在踏板上，于是赶紧对那男人说：同志，你烟掉了！男人大怒：你才阉掉了！