Rob Ford seems to always "look drunk" even when he isn't. It pains me to type this but even Rob Ford - EVEN ROB FORD - is not dumb enough to go to this event drunk. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes an amazingly unphotogenic guy looks crappy in pictures.
on the one hand, I feel like I saw the guy I could almost imagine getting a picture with him just to enjoy how stupid it is that he thinks I like him while I'm prepared to send it to everyone I know and mock him. I am confident that most of the people getting pictures with him are not supporters.
On the other hand, clearly a) this empowers Ford, even if in his own mind b) I think, given his personal problems, it's the wrong thing to mock him in that way (someone on Twitter compared it to taking a picture of a highway accident) and c) This might sound reverse-sexist but I think it's especially wrong for a woman to pose with him, especially at an event where he reportedly grabbed another woman's ass. (At the time it sounded CRAZY when Sara Thompson said she thought he was high on coke. Remember how CRAZY that sounded??!!)
So...yeah, it's disappointing to see this going on, on several counts. Rob Ford just happens to be a politican for the Age of the Selfie; it's nothing for anyone to be proud of.
P.S. I thought everyone knew - if you want to get drunk and have no one notice, you drink
Hennigans! It's no-smell, no-tell scotch.
