Lordy. Don't go read it but now Warmington has Ford "on record" saying the goose thing never happened - just like the Newtonbrook incident that never happened. That he's allowed to make that secondary assertion (which was never disproven; which never lead to a threatened libel suit) is just amazingly irresponsible on the Sun's part.
On Twitter Warmington is reduced to the same "maybe it happened but I won't believe it without proof" crap that he stuck to on the crack video (which, presumably, he believes now even though he never saw it). Nevermind that it's in official documents that Rob Ford had an official opportunity to refute and it never happened.
[Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if he made them roll on the grass and wasn't aware of the goose droppings, but that doesn't mean they weren't there or that other people didn't see the kids rolling in them. he could have acknowledged that possibility but saying it just never happened is pathetic, even if it's in keeping with his "best mayor ever," "no one's done more for X than Rob Ford," "come to Jesus moment," childish absolutism.]
And, of course, having established the goosecrap thing never happened, Warmington than, ever the JOURNALIST, goes on about all the other things that are just going so much better for Rob now that he's clean and sober. Family, the campaign, everything but the unicorn that flies him to work every morning, though if he'd said that, Warmington would have run that too.
I can't put into words what a terrible person I think Warmington is for pretending that what he does is anything resembling journalism, even opinion journalism. Printing "both sides" of a story isn't required to present a "fair" story when one side is an overt lie. And printing only one side (which he routinely does) can't be played off under the guise of "I'm a columnist so I can have an opinion!"
Columnists rarely interview people and if you are interviewing the mayor, a let's-say controversial political figure, and presenting what he says uncontested (ESPECIALLY when he isn't talking to someone else), you are working for him and not for the newspaper or your readers.
(And, not that he'd care, but someone should explain to Rob that his willingness to speak to no one but the most unquestioning, sycophantic journalist in the city makes him look utterly weak and spineless.)