What’s Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Up To? Just Getting Drunk And Swearing About Police In A Fake Jamaican Accent
New footage emerged overnight. He's still got it.
By this point we’re all familiar with the walking disaster, self-appointed rude boy and Toronto mayor Rob Ford.
In May, reports started circulating of a video that showed the Ford smoking crack cocaine. After Gawker’s ‘Crackstarter Campaign’, to raise $200,000 to buy the video and publish it, Ford admitted to drug use (following months of denial). Then came the November press conference, in which he denied that he’d told a former staffer he “wanted to eat her pussy”: “I’ve never said that in my life to her. I would never do that. I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.”
Boom.
Last month came inexplicable (but undeniably delightful) footage of him dancing ebulliently to reggae music in the local council chamber. And now we have this, his second homage to his spiritual home of Jamaica.
The footage, which the uploader claims was shot on Monday night (months after Rob Ford told reporters he no longer drank), shows drunk Rob Ford employing fake Patois, swearing incoherently about Police Chief Bill Blair, and implying that Blair is under counter-surveillance.
The footage was taken at a fast-food steak joint, and shows an employee patting Ford on the back after his rant, and telling him he’d make a good Prime Minister. What a guy.
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It’s hard to tell exactly what he’s saying, but here’s an attempted transcript.
“Cocksucker fucking Chief Blair, mon. Try, mon. That mother fucker chased me around for five months, mon. Oh my god, mon. I say about me and him mirage clown blah blah blah. I am in me oh am he got five months man. And he try and tell me – well, we’re counter-surveilling him now. He’s hiding here, I’m hiding there. Oh we don’t – fuck that. You know how much money I cost him? I say bro just cut some – no, money money money. Jah. Oh my god man. I say, you know what, you rise above it. I swear to god, honestly man? It’s serious shit man. Serious shit I’m going through. Seriously no.”
Ford’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, denied that the video was taken last night: “[Since] the beginning of November, he hasn’t taken a drink,” he claimed, before pointing out that Ford looked too fat and happy for it to be a recent clip.
Minutes later, Rob Ford delighted his brother by coming out in front of the same press gaggle and admitting that yes, actually, it was last night — and yes, actually, he was drunk.
He didn’t think he was racist though: “That’s how I speak with some of my friends. I don’t think it’s discriminative at all.”
