A poll taken a couple of weeks ago showed the mayor’s approval rating at 42 per cent. As some in the media, mostly in the U.K., liked to point out this was five percentage points higher than Obama’s approval rating was in a CBS poll done around the same time.
The Ford poll was taken after Toronto City Council stripped him of much of his powers after allegations and some admissions of smoking crack, drinking and driving, consorting with prostitutes, appearing drunk in public, getting into physical altercations with some of his staff and threatening to kill an unidentified person.
It is trite to say conservatives do not agree with progressives. But at least they understand them. This is undoubtedly because those on the right are inundated with the left-wing media. In order to obtain news on anything, whether politics, entertainment news or the weather, it is impossible not to read, listen to or watch left wing sources.
Progressives, on the other hand, never pay any attention to the conservative media. Those in that media, whether on talk radio or Fox or Sun News in Canada, are all liars who are crazy or stupid or both.
In the past few years, the Buffalo Bills have played one of their regular season games in Toronto. Yesterday, the Bills met the Atlanta Falcons at the Rogers Centre. The big news was that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was at the game. Not only did the hard-drinking, crack smoking politician go to the football game, but he ate some chicken wings. We know that for a fact because he was photographed with a wing in his mouth.
While some critics yelled taunts at the mayor, Ford was surrounded by supporters who chanted “Rob Ford, Rob Ford.” Security and police at the Rogers Centre were kept busy keeping the fans away from the mayor.
During halftime, Ford posed for pictures with some of his supporters.
While the elite left has no idea why people still support Toronto’s mayor (not that they understood why they supported him in the first place), most of them in the media do not come out directly and say they are completely baffled. Meet Jeff Blair, a reporter for the Globe and Mail that bills itself as “Canada’s National Newspaper.”
Writing about the game yesterday, Blair wrote, “Somebody with a couple of doctorates will no doubt make a study of Ford’s continued popularity in this city once this nightmare is over.”
What arrogance. Anyone who still supports the mayor, and there are thousands, has something wrong with them and it will take not one but two academics to figure out. It is hard to interpret this in any other way than every single Torontonian who still supports Ford is suffering from some type of mental illness.
The truth is that the answer is fairly simple. Ford supporters are not generally supportive of people who smoke crack or drink and drive. They are sick and tired of mayors like David Miller who sucked up to the unions, only to land the city in a lengthy garbage strike in the middle of a sweltering summer. They are sick and tired of having their hard earned money spent on every special interest group in the city or having it used in a silly attempt to end global warming. They are sick of the philosophy that only an overpaid and underworked city employee can take their trash away. And they are sick of being hit with higher taxes and user fees just because it is a new year.
The elites will never understand that when they do articles like the one Blair did, they are not just taking shots at Ford; they are insulting a significant number of hard working Torontonians who are fed up with the tax-and-spend left. On the other hand, maybe they do understand and just consider Ford supporters to be second-class citizens, unworthy of living in a city that would become a utopia if only the left would control it.
The Rob Ford Show was not the only thing that took place at Rogers Centre yesterday. There was also a football game. For those who care, the Falcons beat the Bills 34-31 in overtime. The Bills probably would have won had the mayor not shown up.
