(Toronto Mayor) Rob Ford in 'crack cocaine' video scandal

[bigworld]

Source: Toronto Star

A cellphone video that appears to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around Toronto by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade.

Two Toronto Star reporters have viewed the video three times. It appears to show Ford in a room, sitting in a chair, wearing a white shirt, top buttons open, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe. Ford is incoherent, trading jibes with an off-camera speaker who goads the clearly impaired mayor by raising topics including Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and the Don Bosco high school football team Ford coaches.

“I’m f---ing right-wing,” Ford appears to mutter at one point. “Everyone expects me to be right-wing. I’m just supposed to be this great.…” and his voice trails off. At another point he is heard calling Trudeau a “fag.” Later in the 90-second video he is asked about the football team and he appears to say (though he is mumbling), “they are just f---ing minorities.”

The Star had no way to verify the authenticity of the video, which appears to clearly show Ford in a well-lit room. The Star was told the video was shot during the past winter at a house south of Dixon Rd. and Kipling Avenue. What follows is an account based on what both reporters viewed on the video screen. Attempts to reach the mayor and members of his staff to get comment on this story were unsuccessful.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/16/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal.html

[HeroInAHalfShell]

1. haha.. wow!

[derby378]

2. A one, and a two, and a...

[PDJane]

3. It doesn't shock me. The man's a total embarassment.

He should be in treatment for alcohol problems, for one thing.

He's just an all round bullying incompetent.

[laundry_queen]

6. Yep

I'm waiting for the spectacular meltdown. This guy's got an emotional age of 2. He IS a bully, and a narcissist, and an alcoholic and now apparently a drug addict too. I hope this does it for him. He has a been a total embarrassment.

I have to mention this because this is a great example of what he's all about. Him and his brother (a city councillor) did some kind of vegetarian/vegan challenge in order to get healthy and lose weight. They had weigh ins every week on camera. The first while, Rob Ford did better than his brother and was insufferable. Bragging, nya nya'ing, putting his brother down - you name it. Then his brother stuck to the diet and started to do better (while clearly Rob Ford was cheating and gaining weight). Suddenly - poutrage at the weigh ins. "This is stupid" he kept saying. He put down everyone involved, he made excuses, he kept figuratively stomping his feet and having a meltdown about what a 'dumb' idea this was. Then he quit. That's Rob Ford in an nutshell. All the emotional control of a toddler.

[closeupready]

4. Ah, but Trudeau didn't resign office in disgrace.

You?

[Ash_F]

5. Oh man Jon Stewart is going to have a field day with this. /nt

[tom_kelly]

7. Makes me

realize how much I miss Jack Layton. God rest his soul.

[GliderGuider]

9. Same here. Layton was cut from the same cloth as Tommy Douglas.

Ford, OTOH, is a pure-and-simple sociopath.

[Mr. David]

8. We just found MARION BERRY JUNIOR, HERE!!!

http://www.fark.com/comments/7754454

[GliderGuider]

10. I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning... nt