The Toronto Star has paid $5,000 to unidentified parties for a video which shows Rob Ford in a fit of drunken bravado ranting against an unknown individual who is not present. The location of this incident has not been revealed and it isn’t clear what anyone at the Star knows about it. The newspaper took the precaution of recording the transaction but will not release that video. As to the video purchased by the newspaper showing Mr. Ford, it appears to have been taken without the knowledge of the mayor from a low position. The deputy mayor, Norm Kelly, said it looked like “a set-up.” It is very early in the public phase of this video and there may be some as yet unknown reason why the newspaper is keeping secret the circumstances under which it was purchased, and from whom. Mayor Ford told reporters that the video was”very embarrassing.” He said he was “extremely, extremely inebriated” when the video was taken. CP24 has broadcast a transcript of the mayor’s remarks on the tape. He is said to be denouncing someone with whom he has an issue. The mayor says “Ill ‘kill him” among other threatening things however the sense of Mr. Ford on the video is that his words are bravado.
