A new video of Mayor Ford recorded at a restaurant on Rexdale Blvd last night (Monday, January 20, 2014) has been posted to YouTube. Make what you will of it, assuming that you still care about Rob Ford in the slightest. You can hear him slur the police chief. There are vulgarisms and the use of Jamaican patois, according to some. Ford says “No, no, no but I’m a straight-up guy” when someone with him says he should be prime minister. His brother Doug Ford insisted the video was not shot yesterday because the mayor had not had a drink since November. However, about 4.30 p.m. at City Hall, Mayor Ford admitted that he was at the restaurant, that he was indeed drinking “a little bit” and saying it was on his own time. At City Hall this video has been like a blood transfusion to a CP24 suffering the news anaemia of a day which it is too cold for anything but traffic accidents. A number of councillors said they did not wish to be “distracted” again by the mayor’s behaviour but they were available to talk about the issue again for quite a long time and thereby propelled the story. One distressed member lamented to reporters that council was going to be distracted “this winter” Some may say the dramatic distraction is more like politicking. Stephen LeDrew comments that this video has potential to destroy Mr. Ford’s comeback attempt. The previously hapless mayor was beginning to look respectable again after his energetic performance during the ice storm. Now he just looks hapless.