{"id":11720,"date":"2010-06-18T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:13:12","slug":"why-the-rob-ford-fat-fuck-video-was-put-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/18\/why-the-rob-ford-fat-fuck-video-was-put-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Rob Ford &#8220;fat fuck&#8221; video was put online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z8EpSdyB0zY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11900\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/BreakingBrad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/BreakingBrad.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/BreakingBrad-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>City spokesperson Brad Ross (now with the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bradTTC\">TTC<\/a>) pleads with Rob Ford to give up his chase after <\/em>Globe<em> columnist John Barber.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, the anonymous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Ceyla16\">Ceyla16<\/a> uploaded the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z8EpSdyB0zY\">&#8220;Councillor Rob Ford in action&#8221;<\/a> to YouTube.\u00a0 Originally devoid of any contextual information, it sat there for two and a half weeks before being discovered by <em>Toronto Life<\/em>&#8216;s short-lived <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontolife.com\/daily\/preville-politics\/2008\/03\/28\/schadenford-the-arrest-of-rob-ford-city-hall-hoser\/\">Preville on Politics<\/a> blog.\u00a0 Two days later, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/30\/councillors-say-the-darndest-things\/\">posted here<\/a>.\u00a0 And then a day after that, I <a href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2008\/03\/the_excoriation.php\">tracked down<\/a> both its origin (the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telefilm.gc.ca\/en\/catalogues\/production\/hogtown-politics-policing\"><em>Hogtown: The Politics of Policing<\/em><\/a>) as well as the specifics of the argument at its centre (the details of the <em>in camera<\/em> Police Board vote on whether to renew then\u2013Chief Julian Fantino&#8217;s contract).<\/p>\n<p>In the course of my digging, I also uncovered the identity of the user who posted the clip on YouTube and emailed him to ask if there was any particular reason he put it online; at this point, my Torontoist piece had already gone up, and I was just considering adding an update.\u00a0 The fellow did in fact get back to me the next day, but I never got around to appending his explanation, and then kind of forgot about it. (I also later learned that the person I referred to as &#8220;Unidentified reporter&#8221; was in fact the <em>Star<\/em>&#8216;s Catherine Porter.)<\/p>\n<p>But as the clip has not only gotten <a href=\"http:\/\/goldsbie.com\/?p=338\">renewed play<\/a> in recent months but has also inspired a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/television\/article\/800512--new-show-plumbs-toronto-politics-for-comic-relief\">sitcom<\/a>, I&#8217;ve found myself wanting to tell the last little bit of the story, which in turn resurrects another long-past Ford controversy:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I posted the clip on behalf of my friend [, <em>Hogtown<\/em> director] Min Sook Lee, that was the primary reason. but I also wanted to put more out about Councillor Ford in light of his &#8220;Orientals&#8221; comment. I&#8217;m originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and find it incredibly hard to believe that a goon like Ford who tries to pass his hate off as ignorance and skirts issues when he&#8217;s under fire can be an elected official (then again the US has the ultimate in GWBush). I&#8217;ve observed that Ford has a reputation for being outrageous but it&#8217;s dangerous if that becomes accepted\u2014 especially out of an elected official, I&#8217;d like to think that in Toronto we&#8217;d have higher standards. Furthermore, after his &#8220;apology&#8221; yesterday it&#8217;s clear this guy doesn&#8217;t get it and it&#8217;s because he doesn&#8217;t think he has to be accountable and that&#8217;s scary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, thanks to Smitherman and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goldsbie\/status\/16416735298\">Dieter D-H<\/a>, everyone remembers the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/11\/just-dropped-in-to-see-what-condition-fords-contrition-is-in\/\">AIDS remarks<\/a>, but who remembers the details of Ford&#8217;s &#8220;Orientals&#8221; remarks?\u00a0 Raise your hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=164998&amp;op=3&amp;o=global&amp;view=global&amp;subj=100000678039292&amp;id=100000678039292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/LevyJig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/LevyJig.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/LevyJig-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rob Ford gets along with some City Hall columnists better than others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, March 5, 2008, City Council was debating the perennial subject of holiday shopping.\u00a0 Ford was of the opinion that the concepts of holidays and rest are a competitive disadvantage in a globalized world.\u00a0 The <em>National Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribemagazine.com\/board\/tribe-main-forum\/143704-rob-ford-does-again.html\">transcribed<\/a> his comments thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go to the Orient. Go to Hong Kong. I&#8217;ve been there. You want to see  workaholics? Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their  hearts out. They sleep beside their machines. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re  successful in life&#8230;. Oriental people, they&#8217;re slowly taking over.  There&#8217;s no excuses for [them]. They&#8217;re hard, hard workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The<em> Globe<\/em> noted he added, &#8220;This is capitalism, ladies and gentlemen. &#8230; This is what we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Miller, who wasn&#8217;t present at the time, soon after demanded Ford apologize on the floor of Council at the next meeting.\u00a0 Ford refused, and insisted his remarks were intended as a compliment; he was genuinely perplexed as to why people might be offended.\u00a0 Ford is not so much malicious, you see, as he is unfathomably ignorant, and seemingly lacking the capacity to possess empathy for people he has not directly met in person.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/310319\">clarified to the <em>Star<\/em><\/a> &#8220;that by &#8216;taking over&#8217; he meant Asians are further advanced in business  than a century ago.&#8221; But although he bristled at the suggestion of a public apology, he told the <em>Post<\/em> that same day that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribemagazine.com\/board\/tribe-main-forum\/143704-rob-ford-does-again.html\">open to saying sorry<\/a> to individual Asian Canadians who were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>And further down in the <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s article (written by Kelly Grant, now the <em>Globe<\/em>&#8216;s City Hall bureau chief) we see the genesis of his mayoral ambitions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, Mr. Ford showed off a stack of  e-mails from supporters calling his Oriental speech harmless. Several of  the messages entreated Mr. Ford to run for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have asked me, a ton of people have,&#8221;  said the Etobicoke councillor, who earlier mused about running for the  top job before his inebriated turn at the Leafs&#8217; game in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m definitely considering it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Mr. Ford does run, speeches such as the one  he made this week could hurt his chances, some councillors said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anybody could run for mayor, but as long as  he makes this kind of remark, his chance of getting elected mayor is  very slim,&#8221; said Raymond Cho, a Scarborough councillor originally from  Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordSorry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11751\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordSorry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordSorry.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordSorry-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(These actually concerned a <a href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2009\/02\/ford_defect.php\">different incident<\/a> entirely.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the shit really hit the fan for Ford the following week, when on March 14th, ten Asian Canadians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/346424\">protested outside his office<\/a> by lying on the floor next to a prop sewing machine.\u00a0 The group, led by Kristyn Wong-Tam \u2014 a previous president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccnctoronto.ca\/?q=node\/169\">Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter<\/a> \u2014 demanded a public apology.\u00a0 (Wong-Tam is currently the Adam Vaughan\u2013backed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristynwongtam.ca\/\">candidate in the ward 27 race<\/a> to replace Kyle Rae.)<\/p>\n<p>Ford wasn&#8217;t in his office that day, but by this time, he had more or less clued in that he&#8217;d done something wrong \u2014 even if he didn&#8217;t fully grasp what that was.\u00a0 &#8220;I have publicly apologized to the  newspapers, on the radio,&#8221; he told the <em>Globe<\/em>.\u00a0 &#8220;I will publicly apologize to you if I have offended anybody by my  comment.\u00a0 I did not know [the word] Oriental was a racist word and I did  not know [the phrase] working like a dog was a derogatory statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next Council meeting was Monday, March 31st, and came less than a week after Ford was <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2008\/03\/26\/rob-ford-charged-with-assault-threatening-death.aspx\">charged<\/a> with assault and uttering death threats in a dispute with his wife.\u00a0 (The charges were <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2008\/05\/21\/rob-ford-cleared-of-domestic-abuse-charges.aspx\">dropped<\/a> two months later.)<\/p>\n<p>There were dueling petitions submitted to the City Clerk: on one side was Adam Vaughan, with 260 signatures calling for an apology from Ford.\u00a0 On the other was Ford himself, with 151 of something.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/407796\"><em>Star<\/em><\/a> and <em>Globe<\/em> said he had a 151-name petition from the Asian community asking that he not apologize; the official meeting minutes, on the other hand, recorded it as &#8220;151 e-mail communications he had received from individuals, expressing their support&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/mmis\/2008\/cc\/minutes\/2008-03-31-cc18-mn.pdf\">PDF<\/a>, page 3].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2009\/02\/the_robby_ford_picture_show.php?gallery0Pic=5#gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11752\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFlyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFlyer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFlyer-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not only did Ford maintain that &#8220;Asian people do work very hard, and are very, very aggressive,&#8221; he also produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citytv.com\/toronto\/citynews\/news\/local\/article\/21941--rob-ford-issues-quiet-apology-for-asian-remark\">No Frills flyer<\/a> advertising &#8220;Oriental flavour 100% pure cornstarch.&#8221; Oh yes he did. (If I had been his adviser, I would also have suggested he brandish the sheet music for &#8220;A Hard Day&#8217;s Night,&#8221; in order to justify his use of &#8220;working like a dog.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go to the minutes for the subsequent comedy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11748\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFocus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFocus.jpg 597w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/FordFocus-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter Kuitenbrouwer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/health\/summer2005\/story.html?id=c722f3f1-609f-4461-9b80-5277a6112f89&amp;k=84543\">described<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;Mr. Ford stood up and, in the manner of a schoolkid whose teacher has  ordered him to say something he does not believe, he said, in a tiny  voice: &#8216;Sorry.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City spokesperson Brad Ross (now with the TTC) pleads with Rob Ford to give up his chase after Globe columnist John Barber. On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, the anonymous Ceyla16 uploaded the video &#8220;Councillor Rob Ford in action&#8221; to YouTube.\u00a0 Originally devoid of any contextual information, it sat there for two and a half weeks<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/18\/why-the-rob-ford-fat-fuck-video-was-put-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Why the Rob Ford &#8220;fat fuck&#8221; video was put online&#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":[94,15295,1328,1050,15290,6376,875,2211,6620,3948,756,15289,408,353,15292,15287,8545,15293,3487,3571,1694,4865,15144,2637,15291,1277,426,657,3728,641,15288,4773,13908,475,15294,6923,227,576,89,15296,4091,1316,405,19,2311,15286,506,3407],"class_list":["post-11720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2010-election","tag-a-hard-days-night","tag-adam","tag-adam-vaughan","tag-adviser","tag-brad-ross","tag-catherine-porter","tag-chief","tag-chinese-canadian-national-council-toronto-chapter","tag-city-clerk","tag-city-council","tag-city-hall-bureau-chief","tag-councillor","tag-director","tag-e-mail-communications","tag-elected-official","tag-etobicoke-councillor","tag-flyer-advertising","tag-globe-columnist","tag-hogtown","tag-john-barber","tag-julian-fantino","tag-kelly-grant","tag-korea","tag-kristyn-wong-tam","tag-kyle-rae","tag-mayor","tag-miller","tag-min-sook-lee","tag-national-post","tag-online-city-spokesperson","tag-peter-kuitenbrouwer","tag-police-board","tag-president","tag-preville","tag-raymond-cho","tag-rob-ford","tag-san-francisco","tag-scarborough","tag-sorry","tag-teacher","tag-the-national-post","tag-the-star","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-life","tag-unidentified-reporter","tag-united-states","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why the Rob Ford &quot;fat fuck&quot; video was put online - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/18\/why-the-rob-ford-fat-fuck-video-was-put-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why the Rob Ford &quot;fat fuck&quot; video was put online - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"City spokesperson Brad Ross (now with the TTC) pleads with Rob Ford to give up his chase after Globe columnist John Barber. 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