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Olbermann dubs Ford ‘worst person in the world’

If you ask Keith Olbermann, Rob Ford is the worst person in the world.

Toronto’s mayor was featured in Olbermann’s Worst Persons segment of his Countdown program Friday for his behaviour when he called 911 after his encounter with This Hour has 22 Minutes’ Mary Walsh.

“The new conservative executive (in Toronto) has had a rough start but never was it rougher than Monday,” the political pundit said.

Early Monday morning Ford was approached by Walsh, in character as Marg Delahunty, on the driveway of his Etobicoke home. Ford then called 911.

The CBC, citing anonymous police sources, reported that Ford said, “You ... bitches! Don't you f---ing know? I'm Rob f---ing Ford, the mayor of this city!”

Police Chief Bill Blair has since said that these reports are inaccurate, and that Ford never used the word “bitches.”

Olbermann read all but the first remark on-air as he railed against Ford and named him the worst person in the world, edging out Glenn Beck.

“Toronto’s Rob effing Ford The mayor of his effing city. Today’s effing worst person in the effing world,” said Olbermann in conclusion.

Ford, who is now in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the closing ceremonies of the Pan Am Games, could not be reached for comment.

http://www.thestar.com/article/1078201- ... ld#article

Wow. The worst person in the world Now, I don't care for him at all, but I gotta believe there are far worse people out there than Rob Ford.

Of course, it's not like anyone could accuse of Olbermann of ever cranking out the rhetoric

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Ford could have handled it better but the CBC crossed the line going to his home.

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Rob Ford's receptionist flees as warrior princesses descend

TORONTO - A small squad of princess warriors marched into Toronto City Hall Monday to send a message to Mayor Rob Ford.

As they tugged on the locked glass door to the reception area, the young male receptionist avoided eye contact — resisting an offered plate of Halloween cookies — and fled to an inside office, leaving them in the hall.

Thankfully, nobody called 911. Those protesting Ford’s reaction to a comedian on his driveway — he called police and swore at a 911 operator when officers failed to arrive promptly — put down their plastic swords and gave up.

“I think he’s unqualified to be mayor ... he’s not the chief executive of a major metropolitan city,” said Gayle Hurmuses, who organized the bit of pointed whimsy through a Facebook 247 she had promised to attend. “They can take our services but they cannot take a joke.”

“Really what motivated me was just calling attention to the idiocy of him calling 911 on Marg Delahunty,” Hurmuses said.

Ford — who was travelling back from the Pan-Am Games in Guadalajara — wasn’t around Monday to meet the troupe.

It took a few minutes before a staffer in the mayor’s office to come out and meet the group.

“Perhaps they are calling 911,” one princess warrior joked.

Eventually Tom Beyer, who handles the front desk in Ford’s office, emerged and handed out bubblegum to members of the group.

Hurmuses made it clear she’s not a Ford fan, insisting, “he’s gloriously under-qualified for the job.”

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/31/wa ... es-to-ford