But as someone who lives in Toronto, I would like to implore Kimmel to stop joking about Ford for another reason: By keeping the idea of Ford as a joke alive so long, he is helping him get reelected. Why else do you think the Fords showed up on his program? Why do you think they asked him to be on their show? The man was elected as a buffoon, and he could easily be reelected as one. And so if the conversation about him remains focused on his drug abuse with no mention of his policies, then he might well win. At the moment, he has an image, as a drug abuser in private who keeps city costs down. The drug abuse has hidden the fact that he has completely failed at his appointed political task, which was to cut down the city's bureaucracy.
Policy remains in hiding, and the man is scandal-proof. It's a recipe for victory.