Toronto mayor in fresh controversy as video surfaces of drunken rant

Rob Ford 'embarrassed' but gives no sign that he will step down after video published showing him staggering and shouting

• Karen McVeigh in New York
• theguardian.com, Thursday 7 November 2013 19.07 GMT
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Toronto mayor Rob Ford makes a statement to the media outside his office at Toronto's city hall after the video's release. Photograph: Chris Young/AP

Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto who this week admitted to having smoked crack cocaine, has become embroiled in a fresh controversy after the publication of a video which shows him shouting abuse and making threats.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/07/toronto-mayor-video-surfaces-drunken-rant

So his poll numbers will rise yet again.

Dude needs to smoke more crack. He is a fat arse.

Dude needs to smoke more crack. He is a fat arse.

Clearly he wants to be PM of Canada so he can join Chris Christie at a bear gathering ...

Edited November 8, 201312 yr by Jingthing

He sounds like a hoot at the political fund raisers.

He sounds like a hoot at the political fund raisers.

Gosh....

Never realized what a wild and whacky bunch those Canucks are...

At least he is probably too stoned/drunk to have got up to any sexual shenanigans, unless there is another shoe waiting to fall. Watch this space perhaps.

Dude needs to smoke more crack. He is a fat

arse.

Clearly he wants

to be PM of Canada so he can join Chris

Christie at a bear gathering ...

Hope you don't mean a bare gathering with Christie, that would really be going too far!!

Oh man, I wouldn't want this guy and Chris Christie to 'weigh' in on anything of importance.

OMG the ranting video looks like a clip from the Sopranos, and this guy is running Canada's largest city?! Whoever said that Bloomberg was dull needs to look north for a shot of what they could have had.

and you thought he would have learnt to keep his yap shut....

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/11/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-ive-got-more-than-enough-to-eat-at-home/

Import him to Thailand and give him a work permit.

What an idiot, eh?

What an idiot, eh?

He's colorful. Don't be a hater! He's the only Canadian MAYOR in history whose name is known internationally. How many non-Canadians even know their current PM's name? Or is their leader a MOUNTIE or something?

BTW, did you hear his latest gem about getting enough to eat at home?!?

Edited November 16, 201312 yr by Jingthing

I wish more politicians were like him. At least they would be amusing, unlike the drab parasites that currently suck on the taxpayer's teat.

He sounds like a hoot at the political fund raisers.

Gosh....

Never realized what a wild and whacky bunch those Canucks are...

At least he is probably too stoned/drunk to have got up to any sexual shenanigans, unless there is another shoe waiting to fall. Watch this space perhaps.

No, watch YouTube ….

Import him to Thailand and give him a work permit.

Does one need a work permit to become minister of Labour in Thailand?

Such a funny 30 mins watching videos on youtube about this guy. I cannot believe his comments about eating pussy. Simply so so funny, and there is no legal way for the Councillors to remove him from Office before the end of his term. Seems Toronto Council need to talk to Thaksin as to how to get someone out of power. Rob Ford could easily get a job here, he makes Chalerm look like a monk. What great value he is to Canadian politics LMAO.

I think that he possible OD'd on ear medicine.. worked here for Chalerm.

Sent from my phone with the app thingy.

He has provided great entertainment value. I am really glad he isn't from the US. I am pretty sure that posters would have been much, much more critical and the posts would have been rather vitrolic if he were.

Ford Motor Company is not amused ...

But one company is unhappy about this development: Ford Motor Co., which is busily trying to distance itself from the embattled Toronto mayor after “Ford Nation” t-shirts, featuring the automaker’s signature oval blue wordmark, started appearing this week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/ford-motor-rob-ford-t-shirts_n_4273739.html

Edited November 17, 201312 yr by Jingthing

I am really glad he isn't from the US. I am pretty sure that posters would have been much, much more critical and the posts would have been rather vitrolic if he were.

Been there, done that...

Marion Barry circa 1990, during his first stint as mayor of Washington, DC.

The Spirt Airlines ad was pretty funny..."We're not smoking crack" with our $30 fares to Niagara Falls.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-15/spirit-airlines-stays-low-fare-low-brow-with-a-classy-crack-joke

He has provided great entertainment value. I am really glad he isn't from the US. I am pretty sure that posters would have been much, much more critical and the posts would have been rather vitrolic if he were.

Sadly (from a US perspective) the opposite is more the case. Because this "freak of nature/humanity" was a Canadian mayor makes it all the more surprising and thus newsworthy. Dodgy behaviour by mayors for instance in Chicago, DC, Providence RI or Detroit makes further examples less shocking!

SNL parody skit about the great mayor:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17a7tk_opener-cbc-news-toronto-snl-11-16-13_people

If only this was a parody:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508464/Crystal-meth-shame-Co-op-bank-chief-Paul-Flowers.html

Methodist minister

gay orgies

Crystal meth, ketamine, coke and GHB

Chairman (despite, or more likely because of, a total lack of financial experience) of a failed bank

Shaky appearance before House of Commons committee (under the influence?)

Anything Canada can produce, the Brits can pull out something tackier...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24984680

SNL parody skit about the great mayor:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17a7tk_opener-cbc-news-toronto-snl-11-16-13_people

Funny and finally a website that can play current clips from Saturday Night Live. They usually are blocked in Thailand for some stupid reason.

Surely he is certifiable?

Edited November 19, 201312 yr by midas

Certifiably entertaining!

Did you hear the latest? He wants to be Prime Minister.

SNL parody skit about the great mayor:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17a7tk_opener-cbc-news-toronto-snl-11-16-13_people

Funny and finally a website that can play current clips from Saturday Night Live. They usually are blocked in Thailand for some stupid reason.

Yes, it was hard to find a clip!

Edited November 19, 201312 yr by Jingthing

What a compete and utter waste of (a lot of) space. Didn't know the Canadians had low end trash like this.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he has given up alcohol after a "come to Jesus moment"

BBC

Dear me, he would do himself a big favour if he would just <deleted>.