I can't believe we're still talking about Rob Ford but reality is setting in: After looking like inevitable roadkill, after losing all his senior staff, after having regular citizens on the street calling for him to step down, after having his political allies ditching him... Ford miraculously weathered the crack scandal.
Nobody is talking about it and he's going about his business and in spite of him it looks like Scarborough is going to get a subway after all -- yet he is poised to take the credit. My sources in the media say that everything rests on what information they'll gather from Project Traveller's evidence collection. It could all spike up again but he'll probably just repeat the same strategy. Deny, avoid and go on as if everything is business as usual. If nothing comes from the evidence, then it's over and he's free.
Getting re-elected is another story altogether but we're witnessing an attempted re-approachment from the Conservatives (i.e. Tim Hudak using him to help in the by-election) when just weeks ago they pretended to not even know the Ford's. This man must have a deal with the Devil.
I'm hopeful that 'new' information, (which will hurt Ford) which thedeepend alluded to in his post of June 20/13 (copy below) will be broken by the media in the very near future. .
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Originally Posted by TheTigerMaster
Do you know how much longer till the story comes out?
I am sure there are other people on the forum who have caught wind of this. Anyone who works in and around news, journalism, media, etc is going to be aware of certain things.
Timeline wise, I will say this: the story is being vetted to within an inch of its life. Given the stakes, there is no margin of error here. So it’s kind of an ‘as long as it takes’ kind of scenario, but I know it is very close to being bullet-proof.
The larger frame of reference is this: the idea that the Star and the Globe are going to stop digging into the Ford story until it completes itself is laughable. Reporters LOVE to dig—especially if they have something to prove. And this story is just way too juicy. It’s the kind of story reporters live for. It’s the reason they wanted to become journalists in the first place.
At the heart of all this is a simple truth, which the Fords have never understood: You don’t taunt serious journalists. You don’t accuse them of making stuff up.
You don’t impugn their integrity. Especially if it’s you that has a lot to hide. Especially if it’s you that’s lying—and you’re doing it repeatedly. All that to say: the Fords are going to rue the day they decided to provoke this fight.
Anybody who knows anything about journalists knows one thing: they are fiercely competitive. And they don’t take kindly to being called liars. By forcing the issue, and trying to weasel out of the jam they’re in by essentially claiming that the Star and the Globe are lying, they are daring the media to prove their case. In doing so, they have guaranteed their own destruction. This will not stop until everything comes out, even if it ends up in the Supreme Court.
Anyway, these guys remind me of those stories of small town hoods who try and make it in the big city, who try to play with the big boys, only to have everything blow up in their face. They’re just suburban goons who thought they could pull off the big score, and they lost everything doing it because they’re not smart enough to play the game.
Last edited by thedeepend; 2013-Jun-20 at 15:12.