Local news from LEAFS SUCK, but first some context for teh non Canucks.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes used to feature Marg, Princess Warrior (played by the absolutely wonderful and hilarious Mary Walsh and starting some time in the late 90s when the character would have made sense). Marg does ambush interviews - and she is fantastic at it. Mary Walsh retired from the show back in 2004 - but a couple weeks ago she came back to reprise the role.
Anyways, after Mayor Ford retreated into his house, he called 911. Repeatedly. And colourfully as well. The Mayor of Toronto - ambushed by a woman pushing sixty wearing a ridiculous costume and a cameraman - and d00d calls 911 - at least twice.
Even if his defense that he never called any 911 dispatchers "bitches" is true, his actions are still pretty much made of FAIL.
Okay, with all that in mind, what I'd like to highlight is this post from the LEAFS SUCK affiliate of Gothamist.
Sweet IPU. Mark Bourrie, you are so full of fucking FAIL that you might have actually managed your actual goal of making Rob Ford not look so bad. There is so much wrong with post that I doubt I can smash it down with teh force it's earned - so I'm just going to focus on this one part:
So when the score is tallied, we have some downtown Toronto people enjoying seeing their mayor on the run in his own front yard.OMFG. That sentence demonstrates exactly how dense teh FAIL is in that post.
Bourrie's "defense" of teh CBC includes a rant about how teh programming is designed to appeal to only a handful of snooty elites that live in downtown Toronto. Teh anti-CBC forces he's warning us about? That would be Bourrie.
Mary Walsh is from Newfoundland. The character of Marg Delahunty is from Newfoundland. The show is produced and taped in Halifax. Sure a lot of CBC stuff happens in downtown Toronto (mostly at the Glenn Gould Studio) but 22 Minutes takes up almost none of it.
And then there's teh fact that he is complaining about that at all - the catering to teh downtown Toronto hegemony. AT TEH FUCKING TORONTOIST WEBSITE. Teh folks who are doing shit in order to entertain people in downtown Toronto? That's supposed to be Bourrie. Who is incidentally a resident of Ottawa.
Plus also, ever since the Monorail thing and the KPMG Core Services Review, the neighbourhoods that are anti-Ford comprise moar than just downtown. Rob Ford's poll numbers have dropped like a stone since he failed to find the mythical gravy train he campaigned against. But that's kinda local information and it's unfair to expect everyone to know it. Certainly not A FUCKING WRITER FOR TEH TORONTOIST. Fuck.
I guess there's only one way to end this post. FUCK YOU MARK BOURRIE.
4 comments:
I think this post needs just a little more passion and your mom. I give it a B+.
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This post would have had moar passion, but my CAPS LOCK is broken. Also too, I was going to try and work Mark Bourrie's mom into this post, but she was busy - IYKWIM.
OT: Hey, DKWC - the Josh Cantrall Wikipedia article has gone into AfD. I used your text from the S,N! comment section as you suggested to get the ball rolling. So you may as well come by and chime in!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Josiah_Cantrall
Jesus. With an argument, some real facts, some logic and a lot of work on your writing, you might have actually crafted something of an argument.
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