Rob Ford does Mary Tyler Moore

To the tune of The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song...

Who can turn the world on with his bile?

Who can take a slow news day

And suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you Rob and you should know it

With each prance and every little presser you show it

Ford is all around, no need to waste it

You can have a mic, why don't you take it?

You're gonna spill it after all

You're gonna spill it after all...

Jon Stewart on Rob Ford...again...

It just doesn't get any better than this...

Rob Ford Video Rant

Wow.

Exclusive from The Toronto Star: Rob Ford caught in video rant

“I’m gonna kill that f**king guy. I’m telling you, it’s first-degree murder,” Mayor Rob Ford rages as someone in the room secretly uses a cellular phone to film the chief magistrate’s addled tirade.

The target of the mayor’s anger is not in the room and is not known to the Star.

“I’ll rip his fucking throat out. I’ll poke his eyes out. . . . I’ll make sure that motherfucker’s dead,” Ford says, then hitches up his pant legs as if bracing for action.

Ford says he "was extremely, extremely inebriated".

"Again I've made mistakes, all I can do is reassure the people that … I don’t know what to say," he said.

"I just want to come out and tell you that I saw a video … it's extremely embarrassing."

He added: "Obviously, I was extremely, extremely inebriated… that's all I have to say for now."

Somebody needs to drag his butt to rehab. Pronto.

Rob Ford: "Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine."

"Probably approximately about a year ago."

(Probably? He can't even admit it to himself. You don't say you've smoked crack in a drunken stupor unless you KNOW that you did.)

"One time in one of my drunken stupors."

"There's been times when I've been in a drunken stupor."

"No, I'm not an addict. No, I do not do drugs."

Rob Ford just admitted to reporters that he smoked crack.

News link coming soon...

It's the media's fault that he didn't come clean before now:

“I wasn’t lying. You didn’t ask the correct questions,”

Very raw video of Ford's admissions.

So, Toronto voters, what now?

Meanwhile, Ford's brother came out swinging against police chief Bill Blair.

Update: Better video of Ford's admissions.

The Crack in Rob Ford's Story...

“We have recovered a digital video file, which is consistent with that which had previously been described in various media reports, and that file forms part of the evidence of the charge that we have laid today [against Lisi],” [Chief] Blair said.

So, it looks like the media "maggots" were right after all and Ford was busy doing his own version of "get off my lawn" (video) today while said maggots confronted him yet again following the press conference by Toronto police chief  Bill Blair this morning.

We'll find out exactly what the extortion charge against Alexander Lisi encapsulates later today but the huge document dump of evidence has some clues.

Meanwhile, there are no charges pending against Ford - yet - but the outcry for him to resign is deafening once again. He is, of course, resisting that.

One can only assume that this is Good News for Stephen Harper since it takes the spotlight off of the senate scandal. But, it may just suck the life out of the coverage of the CPC convention in Calgary that starts tonite though. Speaking of sucking...it must suck to be a conservative right about now.

Related:
7/10/2013: Rob Ford mum on Lisi pot-for-cellphone allegations
22/10/2013: Rob Ford lauded Lisi’s ‘tact and diplomacy’ after death threat conviction, letter reveals
31/10/2013: What's in the Alexander Lisi police document?