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Rob Ford: Still smoking crack. On video. Taking leave of absence.

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Arkos

Arkos

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I feel like this whole ordeal is a good learning experience for Canada. When you're big time (like the USA) and one of your people repeatedly does stupid things, you don't say, "Oh gosh you guys I'm so sorry he's not representative of the rest of us," you say, "You're god damned right he's crazy and if you fuck with us we'll sick him on you." So, stick that in your back pocket Canada. Rob Ford is just trying to take your country to the next level. And now he's coming to LA to make sure that America backs off.
 
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jstripes

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Arkos said:
I feel like this whole ordeal is a good learning experience for Canada. When you're big time (like the USA) and one of your people repeatedly does stupid things, you don't say, "Oh gosh you guys I'm so sorry he's not representative of the rest of us," you say, "You're god damned right he's crazy and if you fuck with us we'll sick him on you." So, stick that in your back pocket Canada. Rob Ford is just trying to take your country to the next level. And now he's coming to LA to make sure that America backs off.
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Are you kidding? They're going to embrace him as one of their own.
 
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jstripes

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FUBAR McDangles said:
I really haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to this whole thing but how the fuck is he still acting mayor of the largest city in Canada?
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There's no law to remove him from office (all council could do was strip most of his powers), the police aren't gonna nab him unless they have an airtight case against him (it's an ongoing investigation), and he literally has no shame so he won't step down on his own.
 
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jstripes

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Jimmy Kimmel's probably paid handlers to monitor Rob Ford 24 hours a day out there. If he gets on a roll in Hollywood, it's gonna turn into an avalanche.
 
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qizah

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FUBAR McDangles said:
I really haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to this whole thing but how the fuck is he still acting mayor of the largest city in Canada?
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What's said above and he still has strong supporters because they think he's actually doing his job and keeping his promise of saving the city money.
 
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FortuneFaded

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Rob Ford needs to be cryogenically frozen. Preserved so that future generations may enjoy him. It's just plain greed of us as human beings to think that we & we alone should bask in his mighty-ness. For, as Oscar Wilde once said, "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
 
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AlphaTwo00

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Haziq said:
What's said above and he still has strong supporters because they think he's actually doing his job and keeping his promise of saving the city money.
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HAHAHAHAHA. Right. Anyone who's crazy enough to still buy into that is just wilfully ignorant of ACTUAL NUMBERS and buying into his talking points.

The TorontoGAF thread have had a few of those, they've either earned their perm-bans or have just gave up defending him ("show me the video"..."video is shown"..."leaves thread")
 
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AlphaTwo00

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jstripes said:
My girlfriend's mom is one of those people.

Which ironic, because she's an accountant.
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There's a lot of people who are also voting against their self interest, and it reflects a bigger problem of the amalgamation where the actual needs of the entire city can be subdivided so that one specific group (aka, Scarborough) can overrule the entire city.
 
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jstripes

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AlphaTwo00 said:
There's a lot of people who are also voting against their self interest, and it reflects a bigger problem of the amalgamation where the actual needs of the entire city can be subdivided so that one specific group (aka, Scarborough) can overrule the entire city.
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Yup, she's from Scarborough.

It's also funny how Ford seems to have completely forgotten about his home base of Etobicoke in courting Scarborough.

Fucking politics of division piss me off.
 
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jstripes

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I hope Jimmy starts him out easy, to get him relaxed, and then catches him off guard with a hardball question.

Jimmy's got nothing to lose in this.
 
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Azih

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jstripes said:
I hope Jimmy starts him out easy, to get him relaxed, and then catches him off guard with a hardball question.

Jimmy's got nothing to lose in this.
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I hope he's done his research too Jon Stewart style. Rob Ford lies so much and so constantly about everything.
 
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Dark Schala

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Summary of the show if people aren't up.

In an unprecedented appearance on U.S. late-night television, Mayor Rob Ford attacked police Chief Bill Blair, Toronto’s media and city councillors — and was gently advised by host Jimmy Kimmel to seek help if he has a problem with alcohol.

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Early in the interview, Kimmel asked Ford a version of the question city councillors asked at city hall on Monday: “Why are you here? What good could come of this? Have you ever seen the show?”

Kimmel did not mock Ford as pointedly as he has on other occasions in recent months, but he did not shy away from the mayor’s scandals and erratic behaviour, and he confronted Ford with embarrassing questions he has not wanted to answer. Ford insisted that he is moving on from his scandal-plagued last year — “You know what, the apologies are over” — but the appearance likely served only to remind voters of the scandals the mayor is struggling to put behind him as he campaigns for re-election.

Ford said nothing when Kimmel played the infamous video in which he rants about his desire to murder someone; he refused to tell Kimmel who he was talking about.

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Kimmel began the segment by reading out online comments from people who criticized him for having Ford on. One of them referred to “domestic abuse, drunk driving, racism, homophobia.” A red-faced Ford jokingly asked Kimmel if that was the whole list of grievances, then said, “I guess they don’t talk about all the money I’ve saved.” Asked directly if he is homophobic, he laughed and said no.

The host joked that he was dismayed last week when Ford dared Blair to arrest him — “No! Don’t arrest him!” — and he asked Ford if he is being wise in publicly challenging the police chief. Ford then repeated his scathing criticism of Blair and the ongoing police investigation into his activities.

“They follow me around for five months and came up empty-handed. I just want him to come clean with the taxpayers,” Ford said.

He called again for Blair to release the video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine. Kimmel appeared bewildered by Ford’s suggestion that this would benefit him.

Ford said: “So you spend millions of dollars following me around about a video and then you don’t show it?”

At the end of the segment, Kimmel suggested that Ford “might want to think about” seeking help “if” he is an alcoholic. As he has in Toronto, Ford brushed off the suggestion.

“I wasn’t elected to be perfect,” he responded.

Kimmel told Ford that accepting help would set “a good example for other people who might be in a similar situation.” The audience applauded; Ford stuck to his practised lines.

“Talk is cheap, action speaks louder than words. We’ll let the people decide on October 27,” Ford said.

Kimmel also played the video of Ford’s Jamaican-accented January rant at the Steak Queen restaurant. “I have a lot of Jamaican friends,” Ford said again. Kimmel asked him if he had been to Jamaica. Ford said no.
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More at the link, but yeah.
 
Wag

Wag

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Geez. Why does this joker get a national platform to spout his bullshit? It's not even entertaining.
 
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Dark Schala

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Wag said:
Geez. Why does this joker get a national platform to spout his bullshit? It's not even entertaining.
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He's trying to make the truth known via media outlets that aren't suffering from major bias like the Canadian media is, you see. :V

(He doesn't realize he's the butt of the joke yet.)
 
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Kinitari

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knicks said:
Can somebody quickly explain why Rob Ford is still the mayor? Can't they just kick him off for being crazy?
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Nope, this a relatively novel issue and we don't have any procedure to remove a mayor by force. Usually a mayor with as much scandal and one as heavily neutered as he is would have had the grace to step down - but... well...

On the other hand, if he doesn't step down and keeps up his ridiculousness till October, there's no way he'll get re-elected. We just need people under the age of 40 voting this time, and we'll be in the clear.
 
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knicks

Member
Dam, he is humiliating the guy.
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AlphaTwo00

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Kinitari said:
Nope, this a relatively novel issue and we don't have any procedure to remove a mayor by force. Usually a mayor with as much scandal and one as heavily neutered as he is would have had the grace to step down - but... well...

On the other hand, if he doesn't step down and keeps up his ridiculousness till October, there's no way he'll get re-elected. We just need people under the age of 40 voting this time, and we'll be in the clear.
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I'm actually really worried that it won't happen. There is an absolutely mind-blowing amount of people who are still all in support of him and his "I've saved taxpayers money".
 
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Zombie James

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Yup, he doesn't remember who he was threatening to kill. This is the national embarrassment we have to deal with, American neighbours.

Wag said:
Damn, what could the guy possibly be getting out of this?
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He thought Kimmel was going to prop him up somehow. You know, the guy who's been making fun of him for the past six months.
 
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