Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: The Distraction Express.

Rob Ford was elected Mayor of Toronto in 2010, and ever since then, it's been one piece of silliness or scandal after another.  Rob Ford is The Distraction Express when it comes to Toronto politics.

Today's story is no different.  Apparently the Toronto Star and Gawker have been offered a video that reportedly shows Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.  And apparently, the sellers wanted a 6 figure sum for the video.

Now, I haven't seen or been offered the video.  But, I always have my suspicions on stories like this.  It is said that everybody has doppelganger somewhere, and I've seen enough evidence to support that thought.  Also, these days computer editing software can make just about anyone look like anyone else.  So even though it might look like Rob Ford, there's no guarantee that it actually is.

He shouldn't be in office really, after being convicted of a conflict of interest back in November 2012, though Rob Ford successfully appealed against being removed from office.  That case isn't over though as the lawyer who brought the case is seeking leave to appeal to Canada's Supreme Court.

But this quite frankly, is a piece of silliness, just another one in a long line of silliness surrounding this Toronto Mayor, who has never helped himself, ever since being elected. 

NaVloPoMo 2009 – Day 5: Fort Hood Shooting

This was not what I had planned for day 5, but Viewpoint is a news and media blog and as such, plans can get changed at the last minute.  Commentary on the ongoing story at Fort Hood, nr Austin, Texas.

NaVloPoMo 2009 – Day 4: US election insight.

NaVloPoMo 2009 – Day 3: US Election Day 2009

Ian Beaumont looks forward to today's off year elections in the US.

NaVloPoMo – Day 2: Afghanistan

A few points about the election of Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan.

Viewpoint – Republican sour grapes

Viewpoint: 9/11 +8

It was 8 years ago today when the world changed forever.  9/11 as it was to become known killed over 3,000 people in 4 separate attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC and in Virgina.  Ian Beaumont looks back at a day that lives in the minds of all who witnessed it.

Viewpoint – Review of Season 1

Ian Beaumont looks back on the stories that have most influenced Viewpoint over this past season just gone. 

Viewpoint - The Lingerie Football League

Even in the middle of the Major League Baseball season, Ian Beaumont looks forward to the return of American Football, but in this episode of Viewpoint, Ian talks about an American Football league - with a very sexy difference.

For more on the Lingerie Football League, have a look at their official website here.

Viewpoint – Transgendered mayor in trouble

A transgendered mayor in an Oregon town is embroiled in controversy, but as Ian Beaumont reports, it's really all a storm in a C-cup!

Viewpoint – Pornstars and politicians

Viewpoint – Walter Cronkite 1916-2009

Viewpoint – Sex education and society

Viewpoint – An Assembly for Cornwall?

A Cornish MP has proposed the creation of a new Cornish Assembly in a bill to be put before the UK Parliament, but as Ian Beaumont reveals in this edition of Viewpoint, the idea of a Cornish assembly usually gets a cold reception.

Viewpoint – Alcohol, Newquay and Teens

In the wake of a teenager dying after falling off a cliff in Newquay, harsh words are being used all over the story, and Ian Beaumont tries to cut through the emotion and get to the facts.

Viewpoint - Idiot Brigade Awards! - 7th-13th June 2009

Ian Beaumont has 3 gold medal worthy moments of idioticness to talk about, but only one can get the first Idiot Brigade Awards Gold Medal!  Will it be the Malk Maid, Michelle Malkin who gets the gold medal?  Or perhaps Boss Limburger of the Republican Party himself, Rush Limabugh! 

 

Look out for another Idiot Brigade Awards episode next Saturday here on Viewpoint.

Ian Beaumont uses this episode to go around the political world and highlight the extremes that politics reaches, from the sublime, to the ridiculous, to the plain stupid.

Viewpoint – New York Senate Coup

In the wake of a Republican power grab in the New York State Senate, Ian Beaumont is uncompromising about Republicans and their so called love of "Democracy".

Viewpoint Election Special – They think it’s all over…

Despite the fact that the media have moved on to other stories, the European Elections are still not quite over.  Ian Beaumont looks at where we are, and rounds up the facts and figures from this European Election.

Viewpoint Election Special – European Elections

The European Election results have been much slower to declare tonight than was originally planned.  Recorded after 1am in the morning, Ian Beaumont reviews developments to this point.