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The ongoing train wreck which is Rob Ford
Nov. 19th, 2013 10:47 amA couple of notes:
1) If you lead a speech with a reference to your father being a Sunday School teacher and cite the words of Jesus to the woman taken in adultery ("Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", which, when invoked in a vacuum, is associated in my mind with the joke punchline "Oh come on, mother!"), it's probably not a good idea to end up with "Well, folks, if you think American-style politics is nasty, you guys have just attacked Kuwait. And you will never, you will never see something that you have — mark my words, friends, this is going to be outright war in the next election and I’m going to do everything in my power, everything in my power to beat you guys. ... What goes around comes around, friends." It's also probably not a good idea to highlight the hypocrisy of the beginning by saying in an interview later on in the same day that you're not particularly religious. Actually, it's probably not a good idea to compare yourself to Kuwait at all.
2) One of the minor, but telling, points highlighting the way in which Ford is a poster boy for Dunning-Kruger syndrome was his identification of the mayor's (and the mayor's staff's) job as answering phone calls: the response from the city manager ("answering phone calls is not part of the mayor's statutory duties") pretty well sums it up.
1) If you lead a speech with a reference to your father being a Sunday School teacher and cite the words of Jesus to the woman taken in adultery ("Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", which, when invoked in a vacuum, is associated in my mind with the joke punchline "Oh come on, mother!"), it's probably not a good idea to end up with "Well, folks, if you think American-style politics is nasty, you guys have just attacked Kuwait. And you will never, you will never see something that you have — mark my words, friends, this is going to be outright war in the next election and I’m going to do everything in my power, everything in my power to beat you guys. ... What goes around comes around, friends." It's also probably not a good idea to highlight the hypocrisy of the beginning by saying in an interview later on in the same day that you're not particularly religious. Actually, it's probably not a good idea to compare yourself to Kuwait at all.
2) One of the minor, but telling, points highlighting the way in which Ford is a poster boy for Dunning-Kruger syndrome was his identification of the mayor's (and the mayor's staff's) job as answering phone calls: the response from the city manager ("answering phone calls is not part of the mayor's statutory duties") pretty well sums it up.
