Image by Shaun Merritt via FlickrI'm back in Cottage Country just in time to watch Toronto sell its soul to mass, crass, and wise ass commercialism - Christmas or new mayor Rob Ford; pick 'em - to a public much too concerned with the bottom line to notice that Mayor Rob Ford is a few screws loose of a shelf.
Now we hear from Joe Fiorito over atTor Star that Ford - a football coach who apparently never ran a manmaker in his life (see rotund) - has asked our national joke Don Cherry to hang the chain of the city around one of his many necks in the official swearing in ceremony.
"So the mayor wants Don Cherry to hang the chain of office around his neck; what of it? Here’s what of it: The Clamshell is not Coach’s Corner.
Rob Ford is the chief magistrate of the corporation of the city of Toronto. He demeans his office — our office — if he turns the investiture into a sideshow.
The symbolism of these things is such that, if anyone is going to hang anything around the mayor’s neck, it ought to be someone who represents the people of the city. Cherry may be a fine fellow, but he doesn’t live in Toronto, shovels no snow in this city, pays no taxes here. His only currency is his chippy celebrity.Joey Fiorito a Toronto Star columnist with the pop and the cohones to call a freak show just what it is: a wild ride down the rabbit hole.
When you get right to the nitty gritty these guys match up fundamentally.
They're both self-seeking, self-aggrandizing semi-literate goofballs.
Rob Ford is shady and Cherry is a failed coach turned ebullient jackass.
Ford campaigned on a dubious platform.
Cherry remains a dubious spouter of nebbish rhetoric, xenophobic balderdash and some very unsavory views on women.
Ford is a bully.
