Fords take to the airwaves

Toronto’s embattled Ford brothers hosted their weekly radio show on Sunday. It was the first time the brothers had put on the show since separate allegations of drug use and dealing were made by several sources.

Sunday’s show began with mayor Rob Ford stating it being an “interesting week,” before confronting allegations of his crack cocaine use as being false. He then attacked the media for the way the story has been covered saying, “80 per cent of them are nasty son of a guns bunch of maggots.”

Rob Ford broke his silence on the allegations on Friday. Two reporters from the Toronto Star say they saw a video that alleges to show Ford smoking from a crack pipe. The story first surfaced when an editor at the U.S. gossip website Gawker claimed to have been shown the video.

The Toronto mayor left an hour into the show because of a family engagement, but did take several calls. One caller asked him if that was him in the Gawker video and why he took a picture with an alleged drug dealer. Ford laughed off the question saying there is no video and he takes pictures with everyone.

Ford’s city councillor brother Doug came to his defence saying anyone who questions the mayor taking a picture with two black men is a racist.

The brothers continue to say that stories of drug use and dealing — a story in Saturday’s Globe and Mail claims Doug Ford sold hashish while in high school in the 1980s — is nothing but an attack by the media. Now the Fords are fighting back.

“[Rob] you’ve got a skin on you like an alligator. I’m the first to admit I go swinging back… They want to come after us, I am coming after them,” said Doug Ford.