{"id":5610,"date":"2013-11-14T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2013-11-14T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:12:29","slug":"let-he-who-is-without-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"Let he who is without sin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;You know what, I&#8217;m not perfect.. Maybe you are, but I&#8217;m not.&#8221; <\/em><br \/>\n-Rob Ford<\/p>\n<p>Rob is right. We should all cut the guy some slack. After all, who among us hasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/947334\/mayor-rob-ford-admits-to-smoking-crack-cocaine\/\">smoked crack and lied about it<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/rob-ford-and-a-decade-of-controversy\/article4330595\/\">been charged with drunk driving and lied about<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2013\/11\/13\/judge-orders-release-of-more-material-in-mayor-rob-ford-investigation\">continued to drive drunk after the fact<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2013\/11\/13\/judge-orders-release-of-more-material-in-mayor-rob-ford-investigation\">assaulted employees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/rob-ford-admits-buying-drugs-council-urges-him-to-take-leave-1.2424106\">purchased illegal drugs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/11\/07\/mayor_rob_ford_caught_in_video_rant.html\">made homophobic and racist comments on video<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2013\/11\/13\/judge-orders-release-of-more-material-in-mayor-rob-ford-investigation\">been accused of sexual harrasment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/news\/city_hall\/2013\/05\/16\/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal\/rob_ford_1.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/city_hall\/2013\/05\/16\/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal.html&#038;h=1117&#038;w=1200&#038;sz=342&#038;tbnid=X0tKe_oER9Cp5M:&#038;tbnh=99&#038;tbnw=106&#038;zoom=1&#038;usg=__cQk3iVtDBFBN4C30OLHk2iPCfvw=&#038;docid=9M8mrQJcMDDhDM&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=egyFUtjSEuqr2wW4hoEI&#038;ved=0CDcQ9QEwAg\">hung out with drug dealers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/05\/17\/timeline-controversies-over-rob-fords-time-in-office\/\">given a mother the finger from your car<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/11\/07\/mayor_rob_ford_caught_in_video_rant.html\">threatened to kill someone while high<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/city_hall\/2013\/03\/08\/rob_ford_still_misbehaving_a_look_at_past_controversies.html\">been charged with assault and making death threats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/city_hall\/2013\/03\/08\/rob_ford_still_misbehaving_a_look_at_past_controversies.html\">charged with possession of marijuana<\/a>, been <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-asked-to-reconsider-marching-in-santa-claus-parade-1.1541560\">disowned by Santa Claus <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/dailybrew\/toronto-argonauts-distance-themselves-jersey-clad-mayor-rob-165505463.html\">the Toronto Argonauts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/city_hall\/2013\/03\/08\/rob_ford_still_misbehaving_a_look_at_past_controversies.html\">compared orientals to dogs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/rob-ford-and-a-decade-of-controversy\/article4330595\/\">had their wife call 911 on them<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/city_hall\/2013\/03\/08\/rob_ford_still_misbehaving_a_look_at_past_controversies.html\">been kicked out of a Leafs game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder his brother is now comparing him to <a href=\"http:\/\/o.canada.com\/news\/rob-fords-treatment-kind-of-like-what-they-did-to-jesus-says-brother-doug\/\">Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know what, I&#8217;m not perfect.. Maybe you are, but I&#8217;m not.&#8221; -Rob Ford Rob is right. We should all cut the guy some slack. After all, who among us hasn&#8217;t smoked crack and lied about it, been charged with drunk driving and lied about, continued to drive drunk after the fact, assaulted employees, purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[904],"tags":[1072],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toronto-municipal-politics","tag-rob-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}