Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is down, but he certainly isn’t out! And he’s not letting the media keep him from having his own TV show.
News broke last week that Ford’s TV show with his brother, Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, had been canceled after only one episode.
Now the news talk show, “Ford Nation,” is returning — via YouTube, according to the Toronto Star.
“We’ll talk about some issues around the world because it’s going to be a world-wide audience,” Doug Ford told the Star. “We’ll have the Ford lovers and haters around the world viewing it.”
The YouTube show will address local events as well as national and international news. Just don’t compare the show to “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” like Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly did. Doug Ford wasn’t very fond of that comparison — even though he’s never seen the show.
“We’ve done a lot more than the Kardashians,” Ford told the Star. “I’ve never watched the Kardashians but good for them — I’m sure they’re good people — but I just don’t agree with that comment from Norm.”
And with the Mayor gearing up to run for re-election in 2014, the YouTube show will be written down as a campaign expense, Doug Ford said. The first episode will be pre-taped, but the show could switch to a live format in the future, provided the Fords could acquire the necessary technical help to do so.
Since the brothers’ weekly two-hour radio show was also canceled in the midst of the Mayor’s crack cocaine scandal, the YouTube program will allow the duo “to get our message out and not have the media put a spin on everything we say,” Doug Ford told the paper.
“It’s not going to be a nasty, knock ’em down, drag ’em out,” Ford said. “We’re going to take the high road and just talk about what we believe in and the direction the city should be going.”
(h/t Mediaite)
