Thursday, November 14, 2013

You're welcome, late night television

This is how Ford eats pussy.
This is from today's National Post:
Rob Ford left reporters gobsmacked Thursday morning when he denied a new claim that emerged in police documents that he’d berated a female staffer by saying “I’m going to eat you out” and “I banged your pussy.”
“I’m happily married,” Toronto’s mayor said Thursday. “I have more than enough to eat at home.”
After comment, journalists were City Hall were nearly speechless.
Wow.  Given his heft he must be eating an awful lot.
As this totally disgraceful debacle unfolds and showcases how powerless the voting public is when it comes to holding individuals in positions of power accountable, I can't help but draw a parallel between Mayor Ford and disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong: both are in the public lie; both have been accused of being bullies; both became enraged and belligerent when confronted about their lies and their behavior; both maintained their utter innocence as their house of cards started to fall; both show a lack of guilt or empathy (if you bought Armstrong's emotional interview on Oprah you're an idiot).
I looked up the differences between psychopaths and sociopaths and I think that Armstrong was a sociopath, where Ford is actually a psychopath.
So that happened.
I can't believe this guy.
Then again, I once worked with a woman who clung to the lie that she had run Boston twice, and had placed quite highly in an Ironman competition - even after I called her out on it.  The fun part of that story, however, is the ending: I got her fired.
Bullshitting isn't okay at work.  And when your work involves running one of Canada's largest cities, it's reprehensible.  But what is even worse, is that the taxpayers seem to have significantly less ability to remove an elected official than, say, I do to have a coworker let go.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

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