Delighting in another person's misfortune is hardly a laudable trait. You don't have to like the populist Toronto mayor, but rejoicing and poking fun at his plight is hardly the classy way to operate.
Members of progressivebloggers.ca should show a little more class and a lot more taste in this blogger's opinion.
Yes I'm talking to you:
Wingnutter
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I found the criticms of Ford's weight and appearance during the election run way out there and completely inappropriate. Being mayor has nothing to do with the size of your belt.
So I guess writing a humourous, fictional story about a Toronto Mayor that ate Toronto is out of the question? Damn, and I was just about to get my Godzilla on ;)
The Wingnuterer is hardly to be taken seriously. During the last election, it ran a series of article proving that Harper eats babies. year ago, one of its authors claimed to have killed Sheila Copps. The horribly photoshopped picture was there as proof.
Second, Mayors are supposed to set an example. You want kidney stones in your 40s? Eat like a pig and get fat.
Mayors filled with lard preaching restraint seem to be to be a complete contradiction.
Some humour is always in bad taste.
Scott Tribe has always said that I had no taste. Yet humour in bad taste is still humour,...
I don't know why you're so offended with the wingnutterer's humour.
Ever read the comment boards from CBC or Globe & Mail following the death of Mario Lague or after Jack Layton announced he had cancer? Those comments weren't even jokes. Those folks were actually serious. A few actually chearing the demise of Mr. Lague and actually wishing for Layton to pass on.
There are distateful comments everywhere you look...some people think making fun of the physically and/or mentally challenged is funny...
Go at Rob Ford tooth and nail, with tongue firmly in cheek...I don't care, but when you make fun of an individual's weight and health problems...in my book that's stepping over the 'good taste' line.
I'm not one to defend Ford, and this case is no different. I'm also not one to attack someone for their weight or appearance.
That being said, there are a lot of people in this country who are the epitome of poor health, and it's a shame that we value our own bodies so little that we'll drink Coke until our teeth rot, and overeat until our organs fail in pain at an early age. How we live our lives plays a large part in that.
When a politician experiences the consequences of the lifestyle they help organize us all into, it's a joyful day for the commoner, because truth is spoken to power in the most natural form of all - realization of fragility and mortality.
Perhaps Mayor Ford will reconsider his unfounded concerns about daily exercisers, otherwise known as cyclists. If he wants to avoid future health problems, he'd be well advised to join their ranks instead of criticizing people who try to stay in shape and reduce pollution.
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