National Post columnist Michael Den Tandt diagnoses the media — as do many — as hopelessly addicted to the empty, self-pitying “disease” talk of the mayor. Rob Ford’s rehab hitch was two months long, but it took the media mere seconds to fall off the wagon. It was a brutally swift relapse, says Den Tandt. He asks: “Can anyone, honestly, be truly surprised – as opposed to the faux shock and wide-eyed, studied consternation that has characterized much of the coverage of Ford’s return – at anything Toronto’s chief magistrate has said and done since Monday?” No. Reporters are behaving like shivering supplicants in front of their trafficker, fools begging for a fix.
