The lastest Ford thing as seen from Popehat

[james_davis_nicoll]

Various journalists are claiming they have seen a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.

This led to the most darling legal threat ever from a lawyer named Dennis Morris — who has represented Ford for some time — to Gawker:

Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are comment(s); comment here or there.

Comments

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

"Comma-based operating system" made me splort my coffee.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

But only Mel Lastman could sell that crack to... nah, I can't do it.

[captaincrowbar.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Rimmer: After intensive investigation, comma, of the markings on the alien pod, comma, it has become clear, comma, to me, comma, that we are dealing, comma, with a species of awesome intellect, colon.

Holly: Good. Perhaps they might be able to give you a hand with your punctuation.

-- Red Dwarf, "Waiting for God"

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

I was reading this yesterday and was so sure that the email was a fake, as Gawker didn't seem to believe it was really from the lawyer either, but then I read the Star's coverage and realized Ford just has a horrible lawyer. Because of course he does.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know if his lawyer is on crack?

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

I feel a variant of Poe's law in effect whenever I see public figures start to get torn apart on the Internet - it becomes impossible to tell genuine communications from them that dig their own graves from someone punking the discussion.

Anything that purportedly comes from them could be a dummy account set up to satirize, e.g. the fake Amy's Baking Company twitter account (and the couple's claim that their real Facebook page had been hacked after the tirades showed up there) as well as a fake livejournal account from that magazine that tried to claim anything posted on the Internet was public domain. The original scandal is very real, but some of the responses are hoaxes.

The fact that this is from a hotmail account means my brain refuses to believe it and I don't know if I could be convinced otherwise. I guess I'm just being stubborn believing certain decencies exist.