Rob Ford apologizes for oral sex comment, says he is seeking help

[brooklynite]

Source: Toronto Star

Mayor Rob Ford has apologized for the “unforgivable language” he used on Thursday, but is standing firm that the new allegations that he partied with a prostitute and snorted cocaine are “100 per cent lies.”

In a hastily assembled news conference in the mayor’s protocol lounge, Ford said the revelations on Wednesday “of cocaine, escorts, prostitution” has pushed him “over the line.”

“I used unforgivable language, and again, I apologize,” he said. “These allegations are 100 per cent lies. When you attack my integrity as a father and as a husband, I see red.”

Ford told reporters he is “receiving support from a team of health care professionals,” but said “I do not wish to comment on the particulars of this support.”

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/11/14/rob_ford_apologizes_for_oral_sex_comment.html

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Rob, here's an outside-the-box suggestion. Just stop speaking. Period.

[pscot]

1. What were the voters of Toronto thinking?

[marmar]

5. The two sane candidates on the left clobbered each other..........

...... allowing this cretin to get in. And he got a lot of the vote from annexed Toronto -- those former suburbs that became Toronto when they formed the megacity. And there are probably a lot of people with Ford's mentality in the hinterlands of the former Etobicoke and Scarborough etc.

[Saviolo]

28. I wish it were just this

But Ford won an actual majority of the popular vote, if I remember correctly. The suburbs just vastly outnumbered the Toronto voters, and Ford's totals surpassed both Smitherman and Pantalone combined.

I was wrong. I just looked, and found that the other two candidates combined came out .5% higher than Ford. I'd love to think it would have made a difference if Pantalone wasn't running against Smitherman, but I feel like enough of the suburbanites would have voted for Ford because Smitherman is gay, that the Pantalone vote wouldn't have made that much of a difference.

I wish de-amalgamation were on the table at all in any way, but we're never going to see it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Typical Conservative tactic, claim the Liberal Elite were talking down to the voters.

[Posteritatis]

21. Voting demographics in Toronto are really weird

The city amalgamated with a bunch of outlying communities awhile back, taking two mostly distinct communities - metropolitan Toronto proper, and the more suburban/rural region surrounding it - and locking them into the same government. There's always been a rivalry between the two areas - standard urban/rural spat, nothing new there in the last few thousand years.

Ford's politics, campaigning, and public image (other than The Recent Stuff) pretty much all boil down to gathering up as much contempt as possible for those evil non-WASP latte-sipping commie hordes infesting the downtown part of the city, as opposed to the Good Virtuous Real People in the 'burbs. The demographics lately have more or less gotten to the point where someone can campaign on a general platform of "fuck the city!" and will be able to get in mostly because the surrounding areas - which hate the city in the first place, and resent the amalgamation for a variety of good-through-silly reasons - are numerous enough that they get a chance to stick it to the downtown at last.

[KamaAina]

31. Kind of like NYC

where Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx are urban (= Dem) while Queens and Staten Island are more suburban (= repuke).

[Posteritatis]

32. The map of the 2010 election's especially telling

On paper, that's one community, but in practice it really isn't.

[marmar]

2. If Rob Ford gave a damn about Toronto, he would pack his sh*t and leave City Hall.

[robbob]

3. Yay! Canadian story makes it to DU front page!!!

Toronto story makes it to DU front page!!!

...on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) one wag said that Toronto should be loving this guy because finally someone makes Toronto seem interesting. As a devoted Montreal-er I agree 100%!

[Posteritatis]

24. It'd be great if we stopped having the Most Embarrassing Mayor Competition for awhile though

Halifax's previous mayor was small-time compared to buying crack on the job or being tight with the mafia, but after his will-executor shenanigans I'm pretty glad he's out of the way.

[nyquil_man]

4. Does this dude ever do anything right? nt

[HooptieWagon]

10. He's a train looking for a wreck.

[Posteritatis]

22. He's got a regular gift for being drunk on the job. (nt)

[HooptieWagon]

7. It was revelations of cocaine and prostitutes that pushed him over the line?

Whew, thank goodness it wasn't the crack and alcohol.

[olddad56]

8. This guy is delusional if he still thinks he has any integrity left to attack.

[knightmaar]

9. This is normal in Canada

Seriously. We spend all of our time, all day long, discussing sex acts in the most candid terms.

Don't you do this in America?

[brooklynite]

15. Only if a Reality TV show is paying for the privilege...

[Quasimodem]

41. This is a Telefilm Canada production.

This teaser is all original material but with the debut in January they will be recycling un-produced scripts from "That's My Bush!"

[Orrex]

11. I heard that he snorted a prostitute

[Heather MC]

12. Cue the toothless prostitute with the hidden video camera

[thefool_wa]

13. NO PLEASE, DON'T STOP TALKING!

This guy makes me laugh more and more every day. Everything that comes out of his mouth is comic gold!!!!

Kinda hoping he doesn't sober up and we all get to watch the downward spiral. Best entertainment in months.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. What a guy!

He is just unbelievable. And it just keeps getting better and better.

[gordianot]

16. If he immigrated to the US he could join the Republican Party

At least as much talent as Rush Limbaugh and he wouldn't even have to apologize.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. I missed the original comment. Did he say, "Blow me"?

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Opposite.

He was claiming he didn't say he wanted to do something to a particular person.

I don't even know... how does this happen? A Mayor? Really?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Thanks,...now I just pictured Mayor Quimby going down on Mr. Burns.

[7962]

26. Oh no no no, MUCH worse!! Click on the video with the article.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. He was repeating something someone said about him.

[7962]

35. I know, but the fact that he SAID it to reporters and then ADDED to it!

He's gotta stop speaking in public

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. Hell, I hope he keeps going. It's good for our side.

[libdem4life]

19. Toronto apologizes to the world for voting in this guy. Also heard: Mommy, isn't snorting what pigs

do? Mommy: Later, dear.

[Kelvin Mace]

25. How much "intergrity" can you have

after you have admitted to smoking crack and being a chronic drunk?

You also claimed that the allegations of your smoking crack were lies, but they turned out to be, by your own admission, the truth.

I am guessing that this will turn out to be the truth too.

[7962]

27. I know its probably wrong, but I laughed so hard when I watched that video clip!!

I guess because I was NOT expecting to hear him say that!!!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. It's the fact that he looks like a fuddy duddy.

[KamaAina]

30. Okay, who wants to help Rob Ford with oral sex?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. Does that involve knocking out his teeth?

[Kaleva]

37. "I got more then enough to eat at home."

[nomorenomore08]

49. A classic quote for all the wrong reasons...

[Kaleva]

38. His wife doesn't look too happy at this press conference

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rob-ford-threatens-legal-action-aides-claim-drug-sexual-advances-article-1.1516827#ixzz2kg4G0Zqj

[derby378]

40. Notice the strategic placement of her hands in front of her crotch

Hubby ain't getting anywhere near that for a looooooooong time.

[Kaleva]

45. It's been taken off the menu.

[derby378]

39. From Canadian journalist Larry Zolf...

"For Socialists, going to bed with liberals is like having oral sex with a shark."

[Hubert Flottz]

42. Kind of makes you wonder

what your local mayor might be up to behind closed doors?

If politicians have to lie and cheat to get into office, why would anyone be shocked to learn that lying and cheating was just the tip of the iceberg, of their criminal attitude.

This mayor is really sorry, he got caught.

[Ash_F]

43. I don't know what's going on, but thank you Toronto.

This has been an amusing journey.

[AngryAmish]

44. This is pure gold.

[Decaffeinated]

46. This can't last...

[47of74]

47. Here's the video of the interview

Complete with a reporter declaring his love for that guy (Ford).

[daleo]

48. This could be a new category of Internet porn

[hughee99]

50. I hear Anthony Weiner's communications director Barbara Morgan is looking for work.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/anthony-weiner-flak-barbara-morgan-vows-pay-rant-article-1.1414366

[Quasimodem]

51. Rob Ford apologizes for oral sex comment, says he is seeking help

Not just help, "professional help."

That may be what the prostitute was for.
Or do you think he means help with his crack addiction?

[hughee99]

52. Maybe by "professional help", he just means he needs a professional

to come in and handle his media relations better.

[RBInMaine]

53. He reminds me of our governor, Paul LePage.