How is This News?

One-time Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson has made some strong allegations against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. 

She claims he “grabbed her buttocks”, hit on her and, later, she said he may have been on cocaine.

I think Rob Ford is a buffoon but he’s entitled to a little fair play.  For example, if you feel so horribly violated by someone, how about  going to the police and not the media?  And why have media grabbed onto this story? To keep the anti-Rob-Ford thread weaving through the loom.

There is no earthly reason that someone’s claim of a bum-grab should make news. File an official complaint, lady, and then we might have a story.  And the cocaine? Thomson later admitted she googled the way Ford was behaving and “cocaine use” came up as a possible reason why.  I’ll bet other explanations arrived as well ranging from dementia to cancer.  Why didn’t she choose one of those to level at the Mayor?

This story infuriates me. There are enough real allegations and real issues concerning Toronto’s Mayor (and London’s) that we shouldn’t have to waste time on flimsy ones based on the opinion of a woman with an obvious built-in bias.  I lean toward believing Ford when he claims Thomson “isn’t playing with a full deck.”