Re: Ford the "Manipulative Mastermind." To address the latest antics: Fatass continues to be in campaign mode? It's not like he ever left it: His natural self-aggrandizing personality and need for attention pretty much ensures that, and even if that weren't a consideration - i.e. if he mercifully kicks the bucket over the next year or so, there's still Brother Thug's political ambitions to consider. So, he contacts the usual sympathetic media sources to shill for him - CP20FORD and the Sun, natch - and presents his latest sob stories. Oh, it's so effective! How can any mere mortal combat such genius?
Except, you know, it's not. Really, it isn't. The thing that's always struck me about the Fords' tactics (especially Slob's) is how much there is of a "the dog ate my homework" quality to it. The Fords have always been cheap, shitty, tacky and utterly transparent in their motives, as the several quotes from Twitter a few pages back testify. Worse, they're lazy. it's perfectly obvious what he's doing, and why. We aren't talking about a master manipulator here. As usual, they bulldoze onwards with little regard for truth, facts, or even simple reality while decent people stand by and basically let them. The only difference now is it's gotten to the point where they're pretty much irrelevant (thankfully), so it's more natural that they be ignored/dismissed as the freakshow they are. Let's not grant them any courtesies they don't deserve.