liberal catnip: Rob Ford Video Rant

Wow.

Exclusive from The Toronto StarRob Ford caught in video rant

“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.
The target of the mayor’s anger is not in the room and is not known to the Star.
“I’ll rip his fucking throat out. I’ll poke his eyes out. . . . I’ll make sure that motherfucker’s dead,” Ford says, then hitches up his pant legs as if bracing for action.

Ford says he “was extremely, extremely inebriated”.

“Again I’ve made mistakes, all I can do is reassure the people that … I don’t know what to say,” he said.

“I just want to come out and tell you that I saw a video … it’s extremely embarrassing.”
He added: “Obviously, I was extremely, extremely inebriated… that’s all I have to say for now.”


Somebody needs to drag his butt to rehab. Pronto.

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liberal catnip: Rob Ford Video Rant

Wow. Exclusive from The Toronto Star: Rob Ford caught in video rant “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. The target of the mayor’s anger

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liberal catnip: Rob Ford Video Rant

Wow. Exclusive from The Toronto Star: Rob Ford caught in video rant “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. The target of the mayor’s anger

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liberal catnip: Rob Ford: "Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine."

“Probably approximately about a year ago.”

(Probably? He can’t even admit it to himself. You don’t say you’ve smoked crack in a drunken stupor unless you KNOW that you did.)

“One time in one of my drunken stupors.”

“There’s been times when I’ve been in a drunken stupor.”

“No, I’m not an addict. No, I do not do drugs.”

Rob Ford just admitted to reporters that he smoked crack.

News link coming soon…

It’s the media’s fault that he didn’t come clean before now:

“I wasn’t lying. You didn’t ask the correct questions,”

Very raw video of Ford’s admissions.

So, Toronto voters, what now?

Meanwhile, Ford’s brother came out swinging against police chief Bill Blair.

Update: Better video of Ford’s admissions.

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liberal catnip: Steve’s Senate: The Grift That Keeps on Giving

The average Canadian can be forgiven for not being able to follow all of the bouncing balls being bunted about in the PMO playHouse as Stephen Harper fancies himself the prime mimicker of everything decent and upstanding while failing to keep his senate scandal stories straight from one day to the next. Absolute control corrupts absolutely (to bastardize an old cliché).

Last week, CBC/The National’s Peter Mansbridge summarized some of the history quite well in this video clip, in case you need to refresh your memory or catch up on the sordid affair. 
Caution: may leave a bad aftertaste, especially if you’re a Conservative…

Two Key Dates in the Senate Story

Master of the straw man this past Friday nite, Steve proudly told Conservative convention thunderstick enthusiasts:

“Our opponents accuse us of being unfair, nasty and ruthless and portray the offenders as victims, even martyrs. Friends, in terms of such opponents, I couldn’t care less what they say.”

Well, we already knew he couldn’t care less – about a lot of things. But to not care less about imaginary  ideas you’ve concocted about your enemies…well…that takes a certain sort of something, doesn’t it? The word “strength” does not come to mind. “Delusion”, maybe.

And, ironically, it is exactly the classic Martyr personality that when confronted with its own weaknesses and mistakes, blames them on anything it can shake one of those thundersticks at. He blamed the courts, the Liberals, the NDP… never mentioning the fact that Conservative senators are also opposed to the senate motion to suspend Brazeau, Wallin and Duffy without pay. Something about “due process” – a concept Steve doesn’t seem to understand.

Due process, however, has now come knocking on the PMO’s door:

Duffy allegations bring RCMP to PMO doorstep

They may be paying a little visit to the office of Senator Irving Gerstein any day now as well – he who let it slip out (rather loudly and in front of hundreds of people) that he was in the thick of L’Affaire Duffy.

Whoops.

The chamber formerly known as that place as sober second thought will finally vote on the fate of the senators three on Tuesday.

What’s the rush, Steve? What’s the rush?

No matter what, this isn’t over by any stretch of the imagination. Even a delusional man can figure that out. Well, most of them can, anyway.

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liberal catnip: The Crack in Rob Ford’s Story…

“We have recovered a digital video file, which is consistent with that which had previously been described in various media reports, and that file forms part of the evidence of the charge that we have laid today [against Lisi],” [Chief] Blair said.

So, it looks like the media “maggots” were right after all and Ford was busy doing his own version of “get off my lawn” (video) today while said maggots confronted him yet again following the press conference by Toronto police chief  Bill Blair this morning.

We’ll find out exactly what the extortion charge against Alexander Lisi encapsulates later today but the huge document dump of evidence has some clues.

Meanwhile, there are no charges pending against Ford – yet – but the outcry for him to resign is deafening once again. He is, of course, resisting that.

One can only assume that this is Good News for Stephen Harper since it takes the spotlight off of the senate scandal. But, it may just suck the life out of the coverage of the CPC convention in Calgary that starts tonite though. Speaking of sucking…it must suck to be a conservative right about now.

Related:
7/10/2013: Rob Ford mum on Lisi pot-for-cellphone allegations
22/10/2013: Rob Ford lauded Lisi’s ‘tact and diplomacy’ after death threat conviction, letter reveals
31/10/2013: What’s in the Alexander Lisi police document?

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