The Colbert report. ;) Here is collection of antics:
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LeDaro: Rob Ford’s stunts and odd explanations
TORONTO – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he was imitating a retired professional wrestler (Hulk Hogan) in a video in which he threatens to kill someone, denying that the target of his rant was his sister’s ex-boyfriend. To watch the video and read the story click here.
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Yes, Rob Ford is Currently Losing
There’s still some confusion about this. Ford is the incumbent. He has as close to 100% name recognition and voter awareness as any politician can possibly attain. Short of people who have particular mental illnesses or who purposely avoid …
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Yes, Rob Ford is Currently Losing
There’s still some confusion about this. Ford is the incumbent. He has as close to 100% name recognition and voter awareness as any politician can possibly attain. Short of people who have particular mental illnesses or who purposely avoid all news, it’s difficult to imagine any potential voters in the
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Yes, Rob Ford is Currently Losing
There’s still some confusion about this. Ford is the incumbent. He has as close to 100% name recognition and voter awareness as any politician can possibly attain. Short of people who have particular mental illnesses or who purposely avoid all news, it’s difficult to imagine any potential voters in the
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Mayor Rob Ford Is Headed For Defeat In 2014
Nothing is ever certain, but as it stands, Rob Ford would lose almost any conceivable election for Mayor if held today. It is not useful to cower in fear from the far overblown “Ford Nation” and act like Toronto is doomed to “Ford more years.” It…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Mayor Rob Ford Is Headed For Defeat In 2014
Nothing is ever certain, but as it stands, Rob Ford would lose almost any conceivable election for Mayor if held today. It is not useful to cower in fear from the far overblown “Ford Nation” and act like Toronto is doomed to “Ford more years.” It isn’t, and Ford should
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Mayor Rob Ford Is Headed For Defeat In 2014
Nothing is ever certain, but as it stands, Rob Ford would lose almost any conceivable election for Mayor if held today. It is not useful to cower in fear from the far overblown “Ford Nation” and act like Toronto is doomed to “Ford more years.” It isn’t, and Ford should
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Rob Ford’s Permanant Campaign
A break from his legal troubles to talk about the fact that Rob Ford basically campaigns for his re-election all the time. Officially, that’s not allowed, the election period starts January 2014, but think about:Weekly no holds barred highly political …
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Rob Ford’s Permanant Campaign
A break from his legal troubles to talk about the fact that Rob Ford basically campaigns for his re-election all the time. Officially, that’s not allowed, the election period starts January 2014, but think about: Weekly no holds barred highly political and opinionated radio program for Rob & Doug Handing
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Rob Ford’s Permanant Campaign
A break from his legal troubles to talk about the fact that Rob Ford basically campaigns for his re-election all the time. Officially, that’s not allowed, the election period starts January 2014, but think about: Weekly no holds barred highly political and opinionated radio program for Rob & Doug Handing
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Debt Owed To The Media
As fashionable as it is to denigrate the mainstream media for their frequent timidity and conservatism, public knowledge about both Rob Ford’s disgraceful performance as Mayor of Toronto and the current Senate scandal embroiling Stephen Harper, impeaching the integrity and honesty of both politicians, would not exist were it not
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Ford Brothers Radio Show Does Not Belong On Public Airwaves
Recently resigned member of Toronto Mayor Ford’s executive committee, Paul Ainslie (voted with Ford 80% during this council term) has written a letter to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council asking that the Ford brothers’ radio show “The City” on Newstalk 1010 (CFRB) be taken off the air. It’s about time
Continue readingLeDaro: Mayor Rob Ford: “His Worship” or ‘His Horse-shit”
I was attending a meeting with Maine, U.S, counterparts. The meeting included a few Mayors from the Canadian side including a Minister and Mayors and other officials from the U.S side. Canadian side was addressing their mayors as “Your Worship” while Americans were addressing their mayors as simply ‘Mr. Mayor’.
Continue readingLeDaro: Mayor Rob Ford very angry
Maybe he smoked too much Marijuana. 🙂
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Video: Rob Ford’s Mounting Confidence
Mayor Rob Ford What a difference two days makes! According to Daniel Day, of the Toronto Star, a lot: Mayor Rob Ford unequivocally says there is no video that shows him using crack cocaine. Asked by a caller to his Sunday radio show whether it is indeed him in the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Reflections on Political Leadership
Inveterate cynic that I am, I have long believed that most politicians see us, to borrow a phrase that I think originated in The Depression, as ‘easy marks,’ people who are especially susceptible to manipulation and victimization. The fact is that as a species we are a mass of contradictions,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Polarized Politics
Well aware that the universe does not revolve around the City of Toronto, which is within an hour’s drive of my abode, I rarely write posts that pertain to it. I make an infrequent exception today because of a greater truth that the risible antics of i…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Sad Spectacle
“This comes down to left-wing politics. The left wing wants me out of here and they’ll do anything in their power. I’m going to fight tooth and nail to hold on to my job. If they do for some reason get me out I’ll be running right back. As soon…
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Toronto Mayor Reads While Driving
Rob Ford, Toronto’s mayor was caught reading a newspaper while driving on the Gardener Expressway: “On behalf of all the citizens of Toronto that value road safety, Mr. Mayor … please get a driver…no amount of money you are saving by not having one is worth the life of one
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