These days when you practically need a master’s degree to get a job at a daily newspaper, there aren’t many former crack smokers working the city-hall beat.
The derision will be palpable. Any sense of forgiveness will be tossed aside because Ford’s brand of selfish suburban politics are so objectionable to most downtown residents across the country.
The man from Etobicoke can expect to be mocked by late-night TV hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, and Jimmy Kimmel. It’s the price he must pay for looking like a ridiculous oaf.
There’s a class element at play. Ford is like a character out of Married With Children or Roseanne-utterly devoid of any Harvard University sheen like David Miller, who preceded him in the mayor’s chair.
The Globe and Mail’s scornful investigation of the Ford brothers a while back zeroed in on a bunch of hash-smoking losers in the suburbs. None would give their names, while freely admitting that they puffed weed with the Ford crowd.
Charlie Smith
Straight.com
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