pattycakes
Senior Member
Thanks basic, if Ford is arrested, we're all winners, whatever the date! But I sure hope it's April 19th
Deep down in my pitch black heart I feel a sliver of doubt that Massoudi has cancer.
I find the Massoudi Vice story highly dubious. It sounds like during the time the story is alleged to have happened, the crack video was on a cell phone in a pencil case. It would be odd if they had it hosted anywhere accessible.
...which wud also be vry easyt to fake... all u have 2 do is look at sumones writing nd copy it... n e fool cld do this nd put 2gether a log of fake emailz nd sum sort of fake ncrypted filez... then use that 2 bait vice magazine, duh...Vice story said:VICE exhaustively compared the emails allegedly from Massoudi with public notes and comments Massoudi left on his Facebook profile. Both were rife with grammatical errors, poor spelling, and had a similar tendency to overuse elipses.
I was at a superbowl party where someone claimed they knew a guy who made the whole thing up and sold the story to vice magazine. It could be bullshit, but he seemed to believe it and it was in the context of "I know this guy who does all kinds of crazy stuff to cause shit" (i.e. not in a Rob Ford context) so it would be a weird specific thing to lie about at a superbowl party, months after the initial story.
I honestly doubt that the hacker story is real, and it hardly seems likely that the guys with the video were sophisticated enough to set up a digital hosting service with password protection.
Remember, they got in touch with the press by calling them (not by email) and in every case they showed the video by bringing the phone and playing it for them.
I don't think they were exactly Internet wizards.
I assigned just about zero credibility to the Massoudi/hacker story as soon as I saw that inveterate troll/desperate attention-seeker ManüvSteele claimed to be at the center of it. The "proof" was easily-faked screenshots
It's telling that no other media organization followed up on the Vice story or even reported it second hand. Looks bad on them trying to go legit.
Here is the final list in the Ford Pool. The pool is closed at this point, however if you posted previously and your date is not on here, I'll update based on the honour system. We have 107 entries!
Here is the final list in the Ford Pool. The pool is closed at this point, however if you posted previously and your date is not on here, I'll update based on the honour system. We have 107 entries!
I think the relevant detail is that Massoudi THOUGHT he was dealing with someone who could get the crack video, not whether or not they actually had access to it. In terms of his being a willing tool of the Fords' various malfeasances, that's all that really matters. He didn't get it, so it doesn't matter if he was being strung along by a prankster or not.
I suppose this is possible, but it still seems unlikely; Massoudi is certainly clever enough to realise that deleting one copy of the crack video on some web storage service wouldn't make an ounce of difference to Team Ford.
I had March 20th before the thread went down. Though March 19th is a good bet too.
Apparently Massoudi has cancer.. So maybe the speculation on that fella can slow down a wee bit....
i had march 20th before the thread went down. Though march 19th is a good bet too.
I found this odd, but my source thinks it's unlikely anything will happen this week because of March Break.