rightwingSUVdriver
Active Member
After Rob said "we met lots of Hollywood movers and shakers" I wanted someone to say "name ONE. name ONE Hollywood mover and or shaker that you met."
|
|
|
Rob Ford's Toronto
- Thread starter MetroMan
- Start date
- Status
After Rob said "we met lots of Hollywood movers and shakers" I wanted someone to say "name ONE. name ONE Hollywood mover and or shaker that you met."
rightwingSUVdriver
Active Member
It's incredibly frustrating when the headline in the globe article is ‘I held my own,’ Rob Ford says of Kimmel appearance http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...s-church-picnic-brother-says/article17274292/
So people glance at it and say "great, he held his own."
What it should say is "Rob Ford humiliated on late night talk show."
Ramako
Moderator
Absolutely. Far too many people don't read beyond the headlines, which are often misleading and have little to nothing to do with the content. Ford's team took advantage of that with their gravy train slogan last election and their "saved a billion dollars" claim -- they know that a LOT of voters won't check the facts or go beyond the slogans.
Headlines and other candidates need to shout the facts from the rooftops.
GavinTheAlmighty
Active Member
The more I think about it, the more unsettled I am about how he responded "is that all they've got?" when confronted with the allegation that he is a domestic abuser. It felt like he thought he had lumped that in with the booze and crack as "that's in the past", rather than it never having happened before.
requiem
Active Member
I was really grossed out as well...like his "record" really negates all that.
casita
Senior Member
Kevin Spacey? ( Made a puke joke about Rob. )
greenegg
Active Member
He did likely meet Gonzo backstage.
arksi
Active Member
Maybe, but I think the reality probably lies somewhere in the middle. Humiliated is probably too strong of a word. Despite what people are saying, it was a pretty softball interview. I feel like the only unexpected part involved the video clips, but even that consisted of light teasing. At the same time, Ford didn't exactly nail it either, but then again, when has he ever nailed anything? Aside from hookers, that is.
FraudNation
Active Member
That's a beaut! Great find... I think that clip would be perfect for fordformermayor.com, right on the front page. Hell, a skilled auto-tuner could probably have that as the hook in a mashup song or something....
---
As for the rest of that scrum...it looks like the local media are finally getting out the daggers. Pretty pathetic that they needed a late-night Jockey to show them how to be, you know, journalists.
Edit: I guess the CTV guys actually gave it to him first.
Where's that Brit tearing apart the MP vid from six months ago?
rightwingSUVdriver
Active Member
For the mayor of the 4th largest city in North America, which should be a position of dignity commanding respect, to stand there uncomfortably with sweat pouring down his face while they show videos of him completely off his gourd is exactly what I'd call humiliation. Not to mention sputtering his re-election campaign talking points to an American TV audience that has no idea what he's talking about, which I'd file under self-humiliation. And don't get me started on the montage of embarrassing photographs.
sarnya
Active Member
Kimmel comparing the photos of LA's mayor to Rob Ford was the most cringe-worthy moment to me. There's a few times the look on Rob's face was just pure embarrassment.
Attachments
Last edited:
OSS 117
Senior Member
It was only humiliating for Ford because it was a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent. If he was quick on his feet, and gave as good as he got, he could have made lemons out of lemonade. That's obviously not his strong suit, but it's incredibly telling that he thought that's what he was going to do.
TJ O'Pootertoot
Senior Member
It's obviously terrible but it dovetails perfectly with his "Arrest me!" attitude. I mean, let's presume that (unlike us) Ford actually knows EVERYTHING he has done (except, of course, for when he was in one of his drunken stupors). So then he goes on TV and is going on and on about the chief investigating him about this video he wants everyone to see when he (and we) know that the police were first on to him not because of the video per se but because he was hanging out with one of the city's most notorious drug-and-gun-dealing gangs.
I couldn't laugh off anyone accusing me of that kind of stuff and Kimmel deserves full credit for reading it (and even more credit to whoever wrote that whole thing, if it was a single person). everyone who watched heard that and saw him laugh it off; unless you're willfully ignorant, the non-response spoke volumes. So did the way Kimmel cut Ford off when he tried his, "I'm not perfect; maybe you are," crap.
No sane person could watch it and think it wasn't humiliating. I was chatting with people online thinking it was an EPIC MELTDOWN and I wouldn't go that far. But Kimmel is a COMEDIAN. His JOB, despite what Rob and Doug think, wasn't to grill him about Project Traveler and Brazen 2; it was to make fun, and he did. If the best Doug and Rob can muster is that he survived the onslaught - that he took the beating and never went down - they have just continued to lower the bar for themselves. I mean, he didn't get run through by Marg: Warrior Princess but I'd hardly cite that as evidence of his sword-wielding, combat skills.
Your Best Mayor Ever was bright red and sweating like a pig on TV, folks. That's before we get to the pictures and the videos and the questions. He looked guilty and incompetent because he is. And soon he'll learn that being called an idiotic, lying, wife-beating substance abuser is not "all they've got." If he thinks he's so good at standing up under the withering, unrelenting talk of a real life late-night comedian, let's put him in a box with Gary Giroux and see how he fares.
Last edited:
John_Dee
Active Member
Re: Slob being "ambushed" by Kimmel. It's instructive to view earlier examples set by one of his peers, the well-known con artist Sarah Palin. Like His Oafship, Palin was "ambushed" by a tv host, though an actual journalist in her case. Like Slob's experience with Kimmel, the interview with Katie Couric was far gentler than she deserved, pretty much made up entirely of softballs. That didn't stop the notoriously lazy and unprofessional Palin, who clearly hadn't done any prep time at all for the interview - which was actually rather an important one from the perspective of her own purely personal selfish ambition, keep in mind - from screeching about she'd been victimized by the eve-ull 'Liberal Media' when she was unable to respond to even the mushiest of non-threatening questions in a satisfactory manner. Must be nice to play the Perpetual Victim Card whenever it suits you, hmm?
But Palin also appeared on Saturday Night Live during the hight of her own "fame," and if you saw that little cameo, no doubt you'd have noticed that Palin was absolutely basking in all the attention she was getting from being on the show. She clearly loved it. (Tina Fey later said that Palin offered to babysit her children if the opportunity ever arose.) And none of this prevented Palin from again shrieking later on that she'd been "attacked" by evil Tina Fey and evil Saturday Night Live and the evil liberal media. Sound familiar?
But Palin also appeared on Saturday Night Live during the hight of her own "fame," and if you saw that little cameo, no doubt you'd have noticed that Palin was absolutely basking in all the attention she was getting from being on the show. She clearly loved it. (Tina Fey later said that Palin offered to babysit her children if the opportunity ever arose.) And none of this prevented Palin from again shrieking later on that she'd been "attacked" by evil Tina Fey and evil Saturday Night Live and the evil liberal media. Sound familiar?
- Status