Rob Ford caught in video rant

[JohnyCanuck]

Source: Toronto Star

Rob Ford, the mayor of Canada’s largest city, has been caught on videotape staggering around an unknown living room ranting gibberish and gesticulating wildly.

“I’m gonna kill that f--king guy. I’m telling you, it’s first-degree murder,” Mayor Rob Ford rages as someone in the room secretly uses a cellular phone to film the chief magistrate’s addled tirade.

Moments after the Star published the video online, Ford emerged from his office and apologized.

“The Toronto Star just released a video that I was very, very inebriated.”

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/11/07/mayor_rob_ford_caught_in_video_rant.html

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Here's a copy of the Toronto Star video posted to youtube:

[LibertyLover]

1. Mayor Ford seems to blame

a number of his sordid activities on extreme inebriation. Perhaps he should consider drying out at Betty Ford.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Isn't he a right wing type who mouths off about "personal responsibility" when he's not drunk? nt

[Posteritatis]

18. Why yes, yes he is.

Lots and lots of law-and-order rants about how not maximum-sentencing anyone with any kind of drugs is "hugging a thug."

[Dopers_Greed]

3. So "very, very inebriated" is an reason for elected officials acting like dipshits?

That explains a lot of our elected officials here in Texas...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Now remember folks, Conservatives in Canada have claimed they're not "crazy".

[MyNameGoesHere]

5. Well Canada has their own cris crispie clone.

sorry about that.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. As much as I dislike and distrust Christie

He's a good deal classier than Ford.
That guy is a mess.
I'm willing to bet someone has some nasty video of him doing something he can't sweep under the rug. They're just waiting for the right moment.

[MyNameGoesHere]

9. cris crispie is exactly like this bozo

all that is missing is the inevitable scandal.

[MynameisBlarney]

12. Naw.

Christie has never admitted to smoking crack while blackout drunk.

[MyNameGoesHere]

15. He hasn't yet. eom

[knightmaar]

6. What's his excuse this time?

1. I was playing D&D ... we were in a tavern. I was role-playing the "drunken ogre".

2. It's okay. It turned out the guy wasn't dead at all.

3. I was in a drunken stupor. I may or may not have killed a guy. Let's put this all behind us and get on with me being the Mayor.

Not sure where he's going this time.

[icymist]

8. LOL! "They call us lairs, thieves. birds..." Birds?

Go home mayor, you're drunk!

[daleo]

14. The CBC tv show 22 Minutes will have a field day with this one.

[JohnyCanuck]

26. "Bird" a boxing/fighting term?

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I saw on another forum where this video was being discussed someone stated that the term "bird" or "birding" refers to a participant in a boxing match who shrinks from wholeheartedly engaging with his opponent. I am not a follower of the fights myself, and I have never heard this term used in such a context before, so I don't know if this is true or not. But if it were true, it could mean that Ford was was raging at someone he thought was calling him or his brothers cowards.

[George II]

10. Wow....as agitated as he gets, and in his pysical condition, I suspect....

...Torontonians won't have to worry about him for much longer. He's a walking heart attack and/or stroke!

[MynameisBlarney]

13. That's horrible!

I mean, what if he falls on someone?

[George II]

24. Don't worry, he's pretty short, too - if he falls on someone he won't hit that person too high up!

[Ash_F]

11. Anyone from Toronto that can give us some insight on this person?

Like...how did he become mayor?

[Posteritatis]

17. Not from TO, but I'll take a stab at that..

In 1998 Toronto amalgamated with a number of communities in the region, going from metropolitan Toronto and some of the surrounding regional municipality to the very very large thing it is today. This dropped a lot of additional people and communities into Toronto who don't really have much of a connection with the city proper, and has created a suburbs-versus-downtown conflict which has basically been heating up ever since. It's not really an organic city at this point, but two separate large communities who've never particularly liked each other.

(Toronto in general has some baggage with regards to not-Toronto in Canada, in a way you could very roughly compare to, say, how most of the United States views New York and a couple of the other really major cities. That doesn't help, especially when some of the baggage-bearers found themselves in the city.)

Ford got in by very actively playing up that conflict - lots of rhetoric about The Real People Of This City versus the Degenerate Latte-Sipping Socialist Hordes in the vile warrens of downtown - and basically got in on the general platform of "fuck anyone who isn't in the suburbs or maybe the Financial District." The demographics of the city are such that someone can get in that way, given the population in both areas, and if you look at maps of the mayoral election results it's really, really clear that Ford's support base is basically defined as "not the city proper."

The entire situation is more or less an urban/suburban slapfight, by a guy who's pitching to the anti-city population and playing up his Real Person points by being an unrepentant conservative douchebag. It's all the more depressing because of that.

[Ash_F]

19. OK thanks for that analysis

I guess he wasn't having these kinds of outbursts/meltdowns back then? Divide and conquer politics must have wore him down.

[Posteritatis]

21. He's been a tool for awhile, but it's gotten harder to hide with the intensifying spotlight. (nt)

[Judi Lynn]

16. He's too refined for a career in politics! Way too understated. n/t

[Scairp]

20. I guess even Canada has it's moments

And they surely had one when the people of Toronto elected this douchebag. I'm not understanding how anyone could still stick with him.

[marble falls]

22. Canada's Marion Berry?

[Indyfan53]

23. I thought all Canadians were nice. I guess Harper and Ford are big exceptions.

Was this one of his "drunken stupors?"

[rucky]

25. Something about smoking rocks in glass houses n/t

[giftedgirl77]

27. You know what they say..

Crack kills. Apparently in this situation the big question is who & why? Dum, dum, dum stay tuned for the latest drama..

[Myrina]

28. The Mashup shown by Chris Hayes last night is a freakin' scream.

I was LMAO


Hope someone can post it here, my employer blocks video/streaming sites so I can't get there to link it.

[gvstn]

29. This one probably wasn't played on Chris Hayes, but it is catchy.

[Myrina]

30. I can't see it, so I don't know which it is.

Literally, I get a big blue X with a caption "Content blocked by the organization"


The one Hayes showed was from rottenmonkey.com/tag/rob-ford-steve-porter/

[snooper2]

31. Here's another copy of it since it was taken down-

That idiot thinks he can win a fight? What happens when he falls down?

[Locut0s]

32. Love the part about "birds" WTF? lol. nt.

[BootinUp]

34. I like when he says he's going to prepare for it. "It" being some death match

oh boy, he's gonna need a long training camp to prepare!

[icymist]

33. Wow! This video is all over the television world tonight!