Poor bastard, just because he liked to smoke crack rather than snort coke like other politicians.
Society voted for him, it was the fourth estate that went above and beyond to ruin him. The campaign was vicious and vindictive, Toronto Star specifically even went as far as to literally harass the man and kept hammering him up until the end. He was bombastic for sure but half the shit being reported wasn't news it was just hey-look-at-what-he's-doing-now shlock. They could very well have stressed him to death. I have a hard time believing that society would endorse this kind of campaign by anyone else but because it was framed as Toronto vs Rob Ford people ate it up.
In another incident – one that still infuriates me – the mayor accused one of my former colleagues of looking into his backyard and taking photos of his children. Later, Mr. Ford doubled down and called my friend a pedophile.
Why? I have a guess. That afternoon, I had warned the mayor’s chief of staff that we were working on a story about Mr. Ford’s drug use.
The mayor later admitted he’d made the entire backyard story up.
Apparently, though, not everyone caught the correction. After the mayor died, Don Cherry tweeted about the harassment Mr. Ford endured while in office, “reporters spying over his fence” and such.
He was better for the people then Lastman or Tory