The battle between the Conservatives/Sun Media against CBC is all but over. With Rob Ford’s cowering in the face of sweet Newfoundlander Marg Delahunty and simpering defence of his attack on 911 dispatchers, the CBC has all the weapons it needs to show up its opposition as the petty, profane cowards that they are.
It’s all right there on video and on an audio tape making its rounds of the Toronto police service. The video shows it’s not dark as Ford has claimed. No daughter is in sight. There are no one-armed brigands chasing after him. There’s only little Margie patting him on the back and asking him some humorous questions. It’s all so innocent as to be laughable.
But there’s Ford’s attack dog (AKA ‘poodle’) Giorgio Mammoliti effetely swiping at the CBC, talking about his bud’s ‘privacy’. Privacy? Rob Ford is the fucking mayor of Toronto. There’s no promise of privacy for heading up one of the biggest cities in North America.
And there’s the mayor himself whining he should be forgiven for saying ‘fuck’ but let off the hook for abusing his authority to get special treatment from the 911 folks. Because he’s the victim here, get it? And when he doesn’t get preferential treatment, he blows a gasket at the civil servants. Talk about ‘elite’ and ‘entitled’.
This is the perfect opportunity for the ‘state broadcaster’ to sharpen is counter attack on the vicious and underhanded manoeuvring of the wealthy Sun Media and Conservative empire. Rob Ford has single-handedly shown the Conservatives to be wimps, using any opportunity to portray themselves as the eternal victims.
Victim? Of Marg Delahunty? Then hiding behind his little daughter and cursing at the very people whose job it is to save lives without bending to the privileged few. It’s all like a gift wrapped and delivered to the CBC by an arrogant bunch of elite fools trying to have it all.
It’s time for the CBC and the Liberals to use this incident to play hardball against a team who invented dirty tricks and rigging the game. The Get the Facts campaign is a start. It showed Pierre Karl Peladeau as vulnerable; a preening, entitled whiner for whom no self-immolating gesture is beneath him. The gift is laying before the PR folks at the CBC. It’s time to win the public.
