Why they lined up for Crackhead’s Bobbleheads.

Rock’n’roll axiom: you always sell the most records when you kill yourself.

Just One Quarter (24%) of Torontonians Believe Mayor Ford Should Currently Be in Office Today
Most (76%) Torontonians Want Mayor to Step Down Now

Toronto, ON – On the heels of an admission and apology by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford for a series of drunken behaviours, including one where he was caught on tape smoking crack cocaine – an allegation he has repeatedly denied – a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted exclusively for CTV News/CP24/CFRB Newstalk 1010 Radio has found that just one quarter (24%) of Toronto residents believe that Mayor Ford should remain in office, while the rest (76%) believe he should either resign permanently and stay out of politics (41%) or take a break for treatment, come back in a few months and run in the next election (35%). Moreover, few (30%) believe his plan not to resign or take a leave of absence and stay on the job working for taxpayers until the next election is acceptable.

Just one quarter (24%) of Torontonians believe Mayor Ford should ‘do as he says he will: stay in his job, not repeat any previous behaviour, get back to work because he loves his job and wants to fight for taxpayers and then let people decide in the 2014 election whether he stays on as mayor or goes.

Most (76%) Torontonians, however, Want Mayor Ford to Step Down Now

Four in ten (41%) believe Mayor Ford should ‘resign as mayor, get treatment for his admitted conditions and get out of politics all together because he should not be in elected office’. One third (35%) are more lenient, believing he should ‘step aside as mayor and have someone temporarily be in his place, go into a treatment program for three or four months and then return and resume his role as Mayor to run the city and in the Toronto Election of 2014’.

Mayor’s Current Plan of Action Not Acceptable

Since his apology, Mayor Ford has said he won’t be drunk again in public and will not resign or take a leave of absence for health treatment, and that he will stay on the job working for taxpayers who can then vote on October 27, 2014, in the Toronto municipal election and determine his political fate.

The data reveal that most (70%) Torontonians believe that his plan is not acceptable (49% not at all/21% not really), while just three in ten (30%) believe his plan is acceptable (11% very/20% somewhat). 

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This.

God help me.

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Ford’s public week began at a Remembrance Day ceremony, where a veteran refused to shake his hand.

Ford gave a short speech honouring the military and there was a quiet smattering of boos and cries of “shame” in the crowd as he walked up to the podium, though there was also light applause.

After he laid a wreath at the foot of the cenotaph at Toronto’s Old City, the mayor walked past a row of veterans. One said later he would not shake the mayor’s hand because he’s “a druggie.”

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I generally don’t get very political on the morning of the eleventh day, but this year I will make an exception.  As I was driving Son One to St. Mike’s this morning, we listened to CBC Radio, as always.  We heard that Rob Ford would be attending the City’s Remembrance Day ceremony, despite the rumours flying about the next video, which shows a certain prominent city official passed out, gangbangers flashing their guns near his head.

“What a disgrace,” said my son.  “He is disgusting. He is just…disgusting.”

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From: Brian Sumner  bdsumner007@gmail.com

Date: November 10, 2013 at 12:35:02 PM EST

To: warren.kinsella@sunmedia.ca

Warren – don’t you ever get tired of sucking little Turdy Turdeau’s dick??????????????

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No SFH on his list of best Rob Ford songs? Is he on crack? Evidently.

Here are ours, which are better than anyone else’s.

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Langevin Block is a big, old government building, squatting at the corner of Elgin and Wellington streets in Ottawa. If you’ve been to Ottawa, you’ve probably seen it.

Historically, Langevin has housed the office of the prime minister. More recently, it has become a place that offers shelter to the politically insane.

The people who work there came up with the idea of appointing Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau to the Senate — which was clearly crazy. They are the same people who devised a top-secret plan to reimburse Duffy for thousands in inappropriate expenses, and then expect him to shut up about it.

Expecting Mike Duffy to shut up about anything is also crazy.

However, the definitive proof that Langevin is an institution for insane political people came to us last week.

It appears the denizens of Langevin Block apparently started circulating talking points to the effect that Justin Trudeau’s admitted pot use was synonymous with Rob Ford’s crack use.

Seriously.

Now, it might sound like the Prime Minister’s Office is, er, on crack, I know. Likening marijuana to crack cocaine is nutty. But it appears that the people who work in PMO are doing just that, which makes them all insane.

Last week, a reporter from Yahoo! News contacted me, sheepishly, saying an editor wanted to compare smoking pot to smoking crack. My considered, measured response: “That’s stupid.”

Later the same day, a Sun News Network prime time host, Brian Lilley, asked me substantially the same question. We talked about Toronto’s crackhead conservative mayor, and then Brian said: “Let’s turn to the other elected official who has admitted to using drugs, Justin Trudeau.”

He went on: “Justin Trudeau admitted that, as an elected official, he used illegal drugs. Rob Ford admitted that, as an elected official, he did illegal drugs. Same, same.”

Same, same? Um, no, no. That’s crazy, crazy.

Let’s get the hand puppets out for the benefit of PMO’s mentally defective people, so they can follow along.

1. Pot is a soft drug. Virtually everyone in Canada above the age of 16 has tried it.

2. Crack cocaine is a hard drug. Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, has used it.

3. Pot is illegal, but many police forces don’t even investigate folks for simple possession anymore, let alone prosecute them. Plenty of court decisions have held that our pot laws are of no force and effect.

4. Crack cocaine is a Schedule One drug in the Criminal Code. Sale and possession of crack is always prosecuted in Canada. It kills people — those who use it and (often) those involved in its sale. It is evil.

5. Polls show lots of people think pot should be decriminalized and/or legalized. Nobody thinks crack should be.

See, PMO? They’re not the “same, same.”

They’re “different, different.”

PMO’s motives in cooking up this insane communications non-strategy are clear, even to someone cooking up crack. They want everyone to forget Stephen Harper and Rob Ford are conservative fishing buddies and that they have had a long-standing bromance going on.

They also want to do something — anything — to pull down Justin Trudeau’s poll numbers. Trudeau’s Grits have been trouncing Harper’s Reformatories in successive polls for months.

If things keep going the way they are, Trudeau is headed to 24 Sussex, and Harper is headed back to shilling for shadowy far-right interests in Calgary.

Serbs say it is like comparing grandmothers and toads. Romanians, comparing cows to a pair of longjohns. The Welsh, comparing honey to butter. To the Brits, it’s comparing chalk and cheese. Us, apples and oranges.

To wit, as rhetorical or political device, pot cannot be compared to crack.

It does, however, provide conclusive evidence about the mental state of the occupants of PMO’s Langevin Block.

They’re insane.

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Forget about the Fifth Estate’s so-called revelations, which fizzled like a wet firecracker. This is the most shocking, astounding Ford video you will see (until the next one) – and if you listen carefully, you will hear the words from Ford’s videotaped promise to kill someone!

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The amount of coverage is immense, and it isn’t showing any sign of abating.  I don’t have to link to anything – it’s everywhere, wherever you are in the world.  You can find it all on your own.  There’s great writing going on, and shitty, self-absorbed writing, too.

I’m not yet sick of reading about Rob Ford’s sickness – it’s hard to tear my eyes away, I reluctantly admit – but there actually isn’t any new news now: before last week, the whole thing was really about a video of him smoking crack. We now know from him that he did smoke crack, and we know from the cops that the video exists. So, a lot of people are just watching now to see if he dies or not – figuratively or literally.

Me, I’m watching Ford less, and those around him more.  Readers of this web site know that I have been highly unimpressed by the reactions/actions of the likes of John Tory or Karen Stintz.  But lots of others are being judged too, whether they know it or not.  Federally, provincially, municipally: sooner or later, politicians will be called to account for what they did, or didn’t do, during the great Rob Ford circus of 2013.

Not many of them will receive a positive review, I think.  What do you think?

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