This Is Why Ford Supporters Stay So Loyal

Hey, look, we're all sick to death of the mayor using the Toronto Star as his go-to whipping pony.  Mayor smoked crack?  Gotta be a Star conspiracy.  Mayor is a drunken mess?  The Star spiked his lemonade.  Mayor killed a hooker?  The Star sent her to his room and handed him the gun.

But then I go to thestar.com and see this at the top of the page:

This shit really makes me cringe.  It's one thing to go after the mayor of the city for smoking crack with the very people he fights so hard (in public, anyway) to supposedly rid the city of.  Exposing a man in a position of major elected authority for using a highly addictive substance and calling people "fags" and "fucking minorities" is absolutely in the public interest.  Pressuring the same man to resign after such a prolonged attempt to deny and then to cover up those allegations is also fair game.

This, however, I think is unconscionable:

Three independent sources told the Star on Monday that Nick Kouvalis fired Massoudi from Ford’s 2010 mayoral campaign after the campaign heard that Toronto police, investigating an open car door, found marijuana inside and traced the car to Massoudi. 

According to one source, Massoudi said the car had been broken into.  No charges were laid and the Star cannot verify the information. At press time Massoudi had not responded to the Star’s calls, emails and social media messages.

Publishing that you yourself have witnessed a video of the mayor of Toronto smoking crack is legitimate.  Publishing that three years ago a staffer got fired because you heard that maybe the cops found some pot in his car is not.  No one elected this guy, and I've never once seen a public pronouncement from Amin Massoudi calling pot dealers the scourge of the city who should be exiled.  There's no fair reason for writing that some guy got canned once for uncharged pot possession.  

It's just an excuse to use the words "Ford staffer" and "drug allegations" in the same sentence.

There aren't many out there who despise Ford as much I do.  But for real, sometimes it truly does look like the Star is so rabidly anti-Ford that they don't really give a shit who they stomp on in going after him.

People wonder why Ford supporters are so quick to defend their hero and yell "liberal conspiracy" every time something comes out about Rob.  Well stuff like this is why.

Don't make it so easy for them to stand by their man.