Oh how fun it is to watch politicians self-destruct, and it’s all the better when sex and drugs are involved. Even by recent low standards—Anthony Weiner, Mark Sanford—Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s extended flameout is irresistible in its sordidness, replete with crack-smoking, booze black-outs, outrageous sexual harassment and vulgarity, and prostitution. Ford is, said Jay Leno, “God’s gift to comedy.†John Stewart played a video of Ford in a press conference held this week during which the mayor said he “absolutely†stood by an earlier statement that he has “zero tolerance for drugs, guns, and gangs†and quipped that the mayor may actually have meant that he has “Jim Morrison-like high tolerance for drugs.†In a skit on Saturday Night Live, a crack dealer makes a delivery in the middle of a Ford press conference.
"Give Rob Ford Rehab, Not Ridicule"Is that what they tell people in the Black community who are addicted to crack cocaine? 8)