sno man
Senior Member
If the intent is to produce some sort of gotcha moment with regard to Doug Ford's "Jewish conspiracy", I think we can safely let it drop. It's not going anywhere because Doug will never, ever cop to lying or even stretching the truth. We've even identified an easy out for him if it gets any uglier: he can just say he confused Russian Orthodox with Orthodox Judaism. There won't be any apology or admission of wrongdoing.
I get that some on this forum enjoy the internet sleuthery aspect of it all, finding ways to definitively "catch" the Fords in a lie. Me, I can't help thinking "why expend all this energy for zero payoff"? I guess if you give up on calling out liars, that's just opening the floodgates, and there is value in vigilance as an ethical stand. But the Fords take "what's the fucking point?" to a whole new level.
^THIS is why I try to call, especially Doug but Rob too, on their daily dose of bullshit they keep trying to feed the city. I expect a politician to fudge the odd stat or crunch a number in their favour once in a while, but that is not what these two do. AT ALL. And instead of a little nod and a wink "My bad" at the first wiff which would likely defuse the whole whatever-thing-that-day, they both double and then sometimes triple down on the lie, compounding it into a life of it's own. Which then sucks all the oxygen for a news cycle, until they do it again...
The Jewish wife LIE is enough at Karla not practising for the original point of "How can I be Anti-Semetic, my wife is Jewish" But Doug has to tweek the story which is also a lie, to her mother was, then when it's clear the mother didn't practise either, became well her grandparents were, which is also very unlikely, but so far from the original point as to be meaningless either way. He's already polished the next turd (Charter Cable's bankruptcy)and dropped it nearly two hours ago. Glad to see that one down in flames so quickly this morning too. Bring on the next one Doug. The fact-checkers await.
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