That’s pretty much a given. Considering the relationship he has with the Toronto media they’re doing that, but haven’t come forward with the “gotcha” proof yet.
He’s not my mayor, not my city. So I have no dog in this fight, but it’s obvious to me a small cabal of people have been trying to get him ousted from day one. At any cost, some of the issues they bring up are so trivial it makes them look like idiots. The left don’t like him very much at all.
When he was elected the very first thing the media brought up was his health, in particular his weight. Some felt he wasn’t healthy enough to be mayor because of it. This sort of thing flies for fat white guys, but if it was a woman. I don’t think it would go over too well.
So far Gawker has raised the 200K that the drug dealers had requested for sale of the video, they’re no where to be found.
The Globe and Mail (not a gutter paper by any means) is reporting that one of Ford’s staffers, David Price, got a tip about the location of the video last week; went to Towhey, who was still chief of staff and told him; Towhey told the police; and the homicide squad came and questioned a staffer about it, because of a possibility that the video may be connected to a murder of someone connected to the video.
This is something I wonder about. I always thought that coke and heroin made you lose your appetite until you were a skinny pale thing. Then I remember what John Belushi and Chris Farley looked like at the time of their deaths…
I agree that the evidence against Ford is flimsy but this isn’t the first time that issues with a substance problem have come up and where there is smoke there is often a fire.
No, he said " I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist", not “that I have never seen and does not exist”. So he left himself plenty of wiggle room for the scenario where the video exists but he hasn’t seen it (yet).
I don’t get this. Is the other of that article seriously arguing that smoking crack with Somali drug dealers is on the same level as someone Tweeting a lady a picture of his erection under his boxers? Really? Is the western world seriously that uptight about sex still?
While I think what Anthony Weiner did is stupid on about 50 levels, it certainly wasn’t illegal. Considering we don’t know what he and his wife agree to in their relationship, it may not have even been immoral in their framework. Stupid politically, absolutely, but it’s not smoking crack with Somali drug dealers.
Minor difference between Rob Ford and Anthony Weiner: Weiner resigned from Congress after his scandal and is now running for office a few years later. Rob Ford is still the mayor of Toronto. Whether the guy is a crackhead or not he seems to have some major personal problems. I hope someone’s getting ready to make a movie about this.
He says he can’t remember the circumstances in which he smoked crack - which is not really surprising I guess - but says it was “probably in one of my drunken stupors.” That’s a hilarious phrase on its own, and coming from the mayor of a large city it’s incredible.
Indeed. I had no idea that “I get into drunken stupors on a regular basis that are so bad that I couldn’t be expected to know what I was doing when I tried crack while in the midst of one” was supposed to be reassuring compared to “I tried crack once.”
I think I’d be way less ashamed to own up to the latter than the former.
I’m pretty sure the only people who think this way have severe substance abuse problems. What Ford says is that he doesn’t remember when he tried crack or under what circumstances, but he really wants to see the video so he knows what kind of shape he was in at the time. Nobody else cares, but I think that kind of distinction seems important when you have a drug or alcohol problem.
