{"id":20305,"date":"2013-05-17T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20305"},"modified":"2013-05-25T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:03:44","slug":"toronto-mayor-denies-crack-cocaine-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/toronto-mayor-denies-crack-cocaine-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto mayor denies crack cocaine allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up to some fascinating news … Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford is alleged to have been videotaped while smoking crack cocaine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The U.S. website gawker.com<\/em> published an article late Thursday<\/a> alleged it had been offered a video of Ford \u201csmoking crack cocaine\u201d \u2014 and the Toronto sellers were hoping to get six-figures for the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019ve spoken to the mayor yesterday and secondly, he denies any such allegation,\u201d Ford’s lawyer Dennis Morris told the Toronto Sun Friday.<\/p>\n

Morris wasn\u2019t sure if Ford would address the allegations Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll just have to see how that unfolds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked if the mayor plans any legal action, Morris said they\u2019re at the \u201cbottom rung of the ladder of anything of that nature now.\u201d<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

In the wake of the gawker.com<\/em> story, the Toronto Star<\/em> published a story Friday morning by two reporters who state they were shown the alleged video earlier this month and alleging Somali drug dealers are shopping the video around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I’m far from a Rob Ford fan, I do find this story to be hard to believe. Ford has managed some awesome face-palm moments during his term in office but I can’t credit that any<\/em> politician would put himself into this kind of situation. Either way, Toronto politics have been much more interesting since Ford was elected.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Here’s the Toronto Star<\/em><\/a> story:<\/p>\n

The footage begins with the mayor mumbling. His eyes are half-closed. He waves his arms around erratically. A man\u2019s voice tells him he should be coaching football because that\u2019s what he\u2019s good at.<\/p>\n

Ford agrees and nods his head, bobbing on his chair.<\/p>\n

He says something like \u201cYeah, I take these kids . . . minorities\u201d but soon he rambles off again.<\/p>\n

Ford says something like: \u201cEveryone expects me to be right-wing, I\u2019m . . .\u201d and again he trails off.<\/p>\n

At one point he raises the lighter and moves it in a circle motion beneath the pipe, inhaling deeply.<\/p>\n

Next, the voice raises the name of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. The man says he can\u2019t stand him and that he wants to shove his foot up the young leader\u2019s \u201cass so far it comes out the other end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford nods and bobs on his chair and appears to say, \u201cJustin Trudeau\u2019s a fag.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man taping the mayor keeps the video trained on him. Then the phone rings. Ford looks at the camera and says something like \u201cthat better not be on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The phone shuts off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update the second<\/b>: Popehat<\/em><\/a> calls it the “most wonderful legal threat ever”:<\/p>\n

Various journalists are claiming they have seen a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.<\/p>\n

This led to the most darling legal threat ever from a lawyer named Dennis Morris \u2014 who has represented Ford for some time \u2014 to Gawker<\/em> <\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

This is delightful, like that video of the kitten freaking out when it sees a lizard.<\/p>\n

First, nobody ever governed themselves accordingly based on a threat from a hotmail account. Second, are you using some sort of comma-based operating system? Third, what the fuck are you talking about?<\/p>\n

This sets a high bar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up to some fascinating news … Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford is alleged to have been videotaped while smoking crack cocaine: The U.S. website gawker.com published an article late Thursday alleged it had been offered a video of Ford \u201csmoking crack cocaine\u201d \u2014 and the Toronto sellers were hoping to get six-figures for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,28],"tags":[119,213,636,207],"class_list":["post-20305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-media","tag-drugs","tag-newspapers","tag-robford","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5hv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20424,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions\/20424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}