As we have just tweeted, Rob Ford was grilled by Matt Galloway on CBC Metro Morning today. The other household members shushed the boss and me and turned up the volume. There was a lot of fist-pumping and shouts of “Yes!” when Matt got down to brass tacks about His Lardship's criminal behaviour. RoFo pulled a new Nixonian ploy out of his bag of tricks and answered this way: “I’m not a criminal.” Interesting. Maybe it's time to get out something from the tried and true Lyndon Johnson playbook of practical politics:
.. Lyndon Johnson first got elected to Congress in 1948 when his opponent was a wealthy and politically favoured pig farmer: 'Lyndon was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go... He was sunk in despair. He was desperate... he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference at two or two-thirty (just after lunch on a slow news day) and accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children.... His campaign manager was shocked. ‘We can't say that, Lyndon,’ he said. ‘It's not true.’ ‘Of course it's not,’ Johnson barked at him, 'but let's make the bastard deny it.' —from Hunter S. Thompson Better than sex: confessions of a political junkie trapped like a rat in Mr. Bill's neighborhood Volume 4 of The Gonzo Papers.
Let's think of some things to get Ford to deny. Maybe it's time to bring up the two dozen or so domestic disturbance visits our police have made to Ford's home over the last eight years. I want to hear him deny those, one by one. Would DoFo have to bring in the Polack Princess to back up RoFo?
Viewer Alert: The only accurate information from the interviewee side of the desk came when Joan sat down to do a traffic report.
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