We’ve already told you about the report from the Toronto Sun that a new audio recording of Mayor Rob Ford has triggered a decision to enter rehab and temporarily suspend his run for reelection. The tape reportedly captures Ford drunk out his mind at a local bar, complaining about his wife and saying he wants to bang fellow mayoral contender Karen Stintz.
But now the Globe and Mail is reporting that they’ve got or have at least been shown a new video. At first it seemed like there might be ambiguous language referring to a single recording But it’s not the same. It’s new video of Ford smoking crack just this weekend with his sister and possibly bodyguard, extortionist and drug dealer Sandro Lisi at Ford’s sister’s apartment.
Harvard law prof on Scalia’s goof this week: “I strongly doubt it has ever happened before.”
Les Moonves reassures that Colbert isn’t that liberal, a “moderate” even.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) was on MSNBC this morning to talk about the national minimum wage, but one of the show’s panelists took the opportunity to turn the discussion to Oklahoma’s botched execution of an inmate earlier this week.
Fox News goes off on Scientific American editor who said yesterday he wouldn’t return to Fox after he was barred from talking about Climate Change in a segment about top science trends of the coming decades. He is a “scientific coward” according to the good folks at Fox.
Black GOP candidate in Georgia says he agrees with Cliven Bundy that African-Americans may have been better off under slavery than under the slavery of the welfare state.
TPM Reader JG on Scalia …
Scalia’s “mistake” is really indicative of the broader point and more significant point: Scalia has no regard for precedent. Probably 20 years ago Scalia appeared at USC law school, and a friend of mine asked him about precedent and how he could reconcile his decision in a case with an existing precedent. Scalia laughed at the question and told the law student that he was naive to think that cases were decided by precedent. Do we need any further proof?
Here’s a sampling of the hate tweets that Scientific American editor received after “Fox & Friends” instructed their viewers to go after him.
The evidence of Republicans playing fast and loose with the facts to discredit Obamacare is everywhere and has been for months. But I’m not sure there’s any one example that so neatly encapsulates the bad faith and unfair dealing as what happened last night.
In light of this week’s federal court decision overturning Wisconsin’s Voter ID law on the grounds it was a disproportionate burden on the poor. Seth D. Michaels nails the motivation behind these restrictions: “It doesn’t mean ‘only registered citizens vote.’ It means ‘only the right sort of people vote.'”