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Originally Posted by transplant99
I mean if I was to contact some US based website and tell them I have a video of Calgarys mayor smoking crack with me and my dope selling gangster friends, but offered zero actual proof other than the words from 2 calgary sun reporters....those same people would be up one side of me and down another, calling for libel suits and defamation decrees all the while.
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That's not really what happened though.
If you showed that video of Calgary's mayor smoking crack with you and your dope smoking friends to the US based website, and then showed it to two reporters from the Calgary Sun, and everyone who watched its said "we saw a video of the mayor smoking crack...".
I don't believe Ford's denials because he really hasn't denied the story.
Really, what would you have said? I'm pretty sure it would be something like "there is no video of me smoking crack, because I've never done that".
It's pretty straightforward. Instead though, he ducked it for a week, acted about as guilty as possible, and then gave up a carefully worded non-denial denial that didn't say "there is no video of me smoking crack, because I've never done that".
If the guy had even said "I made a mistake, I don't do that anymore, wah wah wah", I'd say he should get to keep his job.
Unfortunately he's such an an unsympathetic character -- a hypocrite, liar, bully, and in general a world class a$$hole, that few people are going let him off the hook.