We're numb to a lot of what he says, which is why there isn't much talk about it. It's like when the ice storm happened and he was nowhere to be found for the first half of the day. A good mayor would have been getting organized but nobody knew where he was. Obviously, nobody checked Steak Queen!
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I think that just goes without saying. It tooks a certain kind of balls to roll into work at 2:15pm, roll out by 4:30 and then get up there and talk about how, day in day out, no one is working harder than you for the taxpayers etc. But whatever part of the brain causes people shame and remorse is - and I'm not saying this glibly - not functioning in Rob Ford's brain.
It's not personal when you publicly declared you're never going to take another drink. If he'd said he was going to "really cut back," it would be harder to nail him for it. But then he says it's a "minor bump," but how is it a BUMP at all when you say you don't have a drinking problem and the cutting back is just a choice?
It's also not personal if either:
a) his city driver brought him there
b) he drove himself
...which seem to be the 2 main scenarios at play. He didnt' volunteer that he took a cab or one of his unseen friends was driving.
It's fun to pretend we're all Dr. Phil and diagnose whatever is "psychologically wrong" with him but clearly there's some narcissism and an addictive personality. I think the rest of it - the lying, the hyperbole, the inability to grasp facts or understand what he did wrong etc. - isn't so much a disorder as a low IQ put under the spotlight. I'm suspect the man wouldn't even cross into triple digits. In Alien3 (everyone remembers Alien3, right?) there's a guy called "85" because everyone found what his IQ was and they call him that to mock it. I suspect calling Ford "85" (give or take) or so wouldn't be totally off-base.
p.s. Great to see what a fine job campaign manager Doug Ford is doing already. Doesn't know WTF Rob is up to one day and absent the next. Given Batra's talk about how Rob would go off the grid during the last campaign, I don't see any signs Doug has a firmer grasp on it. If only there were some real pros who'd still work with them...
p.p.s. Also, can I just add that I love Lisi owns a Canada Goose and drives Range Rover and still lives with his parents? I guess Rob won't be friends with you if you're not living in your parents' basement?
