Ford Desecration Pt IV - the march to Detroit continues

I just want to add my appreciation to cco's Mulcair joke. Hahaha. 

Excellent, and thanks quizzical.

As much as many here may disagree with him politically, it's obvious that the Mayor of Toronto has serious personal issues to deal with in this unfolding human tragedy.

Once again, those Taiwanese animators do a number on His Oafship:

http://torontoist.com/2013/11/extra-extra-all-ford-all-the-time/

As does that venerable institution, Mad Magazine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jer1961/9334449381/

And I understand all the usual late night talk show host suspects are positively de-lighted with all the ammmunition Ford is handing them for generating cruel laughter. Jon Stewert probably turned a sumersault in midair out of sheer joy when he heard about Boss Hogg's latest whoospie-doodles. Giggle! Tee hee!

Meanwhile, did a drunken Ford call Bill Carroll under an assumed name to defend his, er, "honor?" I've been following debates about this at a few different forums, and a lot of people do indeed think it was him (some of them think he was attempting to disguise his voice), or that it might have been one of his siblings. The fact that "Ian from Etobicoke" immediately hung up when Carroll asked him point-blank if he was the Mayor looks pretty strange, if nothing else.

In the meantime, to momentarily raise the tone above sewer-level - which is the natural level of discourse whenever Rob Ford happens to be the topic of discussion - I have to say, Olivia Chow's recent public statement about Ford was pretty damn classy...but then (let's face it), political expediency probably demanded as much. Not that I think Chow's comments weren't completely sincere. She's a class act. (Unlike those of us sharpening our knives online in preparation for the carnage to come!)

And unlike Mayor Cartman himself, needless to say. I'm not surprised that Ford's apparently going to hang on to City Hall like grim death. Or that he's going to try to, at any rate. With such charming details now being released such as RoFo urinating in public and tossing empty liquor bottles by the dozen from his car window as he drives off, reportedly hammered, it's only a matter of time until he's tossed out like yesterday's garbage, all dignity completely obliterated. Small wonder the Toronto Sun - and even Sue-Ann Levy!!! - has turned on him so completely; they recognize that he's a liability now. Well, this is the way he insisted on doing things, and now that it's turned out this way, he has no-one but himself to thank for it.

Does anyone remember Shannon Everett, the woman who supposedly "attacked" Ford last June when she spilled a drink on him? At the time, the Fords were using this incident as proof positive that Rob was the most victimized martyr in the entire history of the world. Except that things might not have happened quite as the Two-Headed Mayor of Toronto claimed:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=195108

Yeah, yeah, I know: Rob and Doug Ford were being somewhat less than truthful? Land sakes, whoever heard of such a thing? And, yes, the insignificant nature of this episode makes its debunking petty as hell - under normal circumstances, I know my own reaction would be along the lines of, "Who gives a shit?" - but it also makes the Fords even pettier for trying to spin political hay out of it. The fact that Everett could have potentially faced rather serious consequences makes the entire incident something more than the joke that it at first appears to be. And frankly, the fact that the Fords were perfectly willing to fuck this woman over for something she didn't even do means we should view with a very critical eye all the calls we're hearing to puff up with human compassion and treat Ford as some kind of victim. He certainly doesn't subscribe to that mindset himself when it comes to other people.

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