{"id":11066,"date":"2010-05-11T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:13:09","slug":"just-dropped-in-to-see-what-condition-fords-contrition-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/11\/just-dropped-in-to-see-what-condition-fords-contrition-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"What condition Ford&#8217;s contrition is in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4071\/4576768100_a42530d364_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, Rob Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/torontomayoralrace\/article\/807604--rob-ford-apologizes-for-2006-aids-comment\">apologized<\/a> to Dieter Doneit-Henderson, an HIV-positive gay man, for his well-documented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citytv.com\/toronto\/citynews\/news\/local\/article\/17952--councillor-rob-ford-under-fire-over-aids-comments\">2006 remarks<\/a> about people with AIDS.\u00a0 By the bizarre logic of the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>, the Rob Ford campaign, and of elections in general, Doneit-Henderson is a synecdoche for all those who could possibly have been offended by Ford&#8217;s ignorant comments. (I am reminded of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/With_Apologies_to_Jesse_Jackson\"><em>South Park<\/em> episode<\/a> in which Stan&#8217;s father utters the n-word on <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em>, subsequently says sorry to Rev. Jesse Jackson, and is later admonished that &#8220;Jesse Jackson is not the emperor of black people!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, why is Ford bothering to express remorse at all? According to <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.constantcontact.com\/render?v=001i_oc2EXSXOtBV8bvozrwf6iXZL5jTqziUrL6YjyZqOLwnD0UvLF8nKV6cJcNKDwMF2Y-L2JhwCu-YYS4GcAzT2mIgdDZvzIpRQiRkrYU0bTgv8pjvOe5nzCa6y-eI9n-B6RSQNL_j0jbaUgSqWjo0Q%3D%3D\">an email sent out to supporters<\/a> on Sunday night, his AIDS comments are only an issue because &#8220;special interests, lobbyists, and elites&#8221; want to distract from his fiscal policies. Here&#8217;s what it said:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/ThisTimeItsPersonal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11067\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/ThisTimeItsPersonal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/ThisTimeItsPersonal.jpg 594w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/ThisTimeItsPersonal-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00a0 If you dare hold Rob Ford to account for anything he has ever said, it is because you love gravy trains and hate accountability.<\/p>\n<p>And, really, Rob: If you&#8217;re going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/torontomayoralrace\/article\/807324--city-hall-has-left-god-rossi-declares\">cite your family&#8217;s personal connections<\/a> to the family of the federal Finance Minister as a reason you&#8217;d be a good mayor, you have no business blasting &#8220;elites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sniderscion\/4576768100\/\">Scott Snider<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, Rob Ford apologized to Dieter Doneit-Henderson, an HIV-positive gay man, for his well-documented 2006 remarks about people with AIDS.\u00a0 By the bizarre logic of the Toronto Star, the Rob Ford campaign, and of elections in general, Doneit-Henderson is a synecdoche for all those who could possibly have been offended by Ford&#8217;s ignorant comments.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/11\/just-dropped-in-to-see-what-condition-fords-contrition-is-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;What condition Ford&#8217;s contrition is in&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,15002,6308,2095,1174,1365,15005,15004,227,7893,15003,339,341,15001],"class_list":["post-11066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2010-election","tag-dieter-doneit-henderson","tag-emperor","tag-federal-finance-minister","tag-ford","tag-general","tag-good-mayor","tag-jesse-jackson","tag-rob-ford","tag-scott-snider","tag-stan","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto-star","tag-wheel-of-fortune"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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