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    Low Information BoaterTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:20pm

    This is like when you think of a snappy comeback, 30 minutes after the conversation ended.

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      GiovanniBattistaFidanzaLow Information Boater
      8/11/16 12:23pm

      Esprit d’escalier.

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      Low Information BoaterGiovanniBattistaFidanza
      8/11/16 12:24pm

      Why thank you, learn something new every day.

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    tornadoslackssTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:17pm

    I thought I'd laugh but I'm sorta sad. Dude was a mess and now he's dead.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boketornadoslackss
      8/11/16 12:22pm

      Yeah, TOO SOON.

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      Jonathan Hamiltontornadoslackss
      8/11/16 12:31pm

      Fucking laugh at the dead, dude. To the extent that your laughter hurts at all, it hurts the living more.

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    ThidrekrTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:29pm

    A week later, Cook published a story describing the video and explaining that it was being offered for sale. The Toronto Star followed by writing a story about how its reporters had also seen the video. Until Gawker published Cook’s story, though, the Star had not seen a way to make what its reporters had seen with their own eyes into a printable story of its own.

    The main rub is that Canada has considerably stricter libel/slander laws, and there aren’t exemptions carved out for politicians or other public figures like there are in the U.S. That’s why Canadian media outlets are very hesitant to release stories like this (and it’s also why Canada doesn’t have tabloid-style journalism—it’s effectively illegal).

    IMO, a U.S. news outlet like Gawker blowing the story wide-open thus made it easier for Canadian media to defend its newsworthiness in the face of potential lawsuits.

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      BCDFGThidrekr
      8/11/16 12:48pm

      That’s really a rule for journalism in general. Some stories, it takes a very long time to break because there’s simply blowback.

      Like, you know, revealing that Hulk Hogan is a dickless racist who’s overly protective of his talentless daughter’s twat ends up causing Gawker to have Senior Week.

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      ThidrekrBCDFG
      8/11/16 12:56pm

      The Hogan trial is a reminder that there are, indeed, limits in U.S. libel law, but you generally have to really push the envelope to get there.

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    EatTheCheeseNicholsonTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:18pm

    I never thought I’d live to see this day

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      Ed SpockEatTheCheeseNicholson
      8/11/16 12:20pm

      Looks like the love child of Chris Farley and Goldfinger.

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      BabylegsEatTheCheeseNicholson
      8/11/16 12:20pm

      I want this photo to be in Wikipedia as the default image for the bygone Gawker Media.

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    Ed SpockTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:16pm

    “We have been deeply saddened since Rob Ford’s passing, since he was the only person keeping us from being the most embarrassing thing about Toronto.”

    Sincerely,

    The Toronto Maple Leafs “Hockey” Organization

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      FreeRonEd Spock
      8/11/16 12:26pm

      sure about that?

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      Gamblor JDEd Spock
      8/11/16 12:51pm

      Ever heard of a rapper called Drake?

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    Sparky PolastryTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:14pm

    Is that really him? Could be a double...

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      GoinalonSparky Polastry
      8/11/16 12:14pm

      It’d have to be at least a triple.

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      Scranton's Banana ProblemSparky Polastry
      8/11/16 12:16pm

      A double-double from Tim’s is in his belly, more likely.

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    BabyatethedingoTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:16pm

    Rob Ford > Donald Trump

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeBabyatethedingo
      8/11/16 12:23pm

      Can’t argue with your math.

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      BCDFG╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      8/11/16 12:45pm

      Being both Canadian and dead, Rob Ford has zero chance of building a wall to keep out immigrants, forcing American Muslims to take loyalty oaths, leading an insurrection of batshit Second Amendment People… so he’s got that going for him.

      Advantage, Rob Ford

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    gilbertkittensTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:21pm

    Rest in peace, America’s greatest mayor!

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      Cam/rongilbertkittens
      8/11/16 12:39pm

      Correction: North America’s greatest badass mayor.

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      opiumsmabytchCam/ron
      8/11/16 2:35pm

      Correction: Correction: North America’s greatest dumbass mayor.

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    jonathan1245Tom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:24pm

    Canada’s Donald Trump, before it was cool. What are the odds this is the way it ends for Trump too?

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      Thidrekrjonathan1245
      8/11/16 12:35pm

      This is why it’s frustrating to watch Trump’s campaign. Ford and Trump are two of a kind—two brutish, superficially charming, individually wealthy, populist narcissists who can’t deliver even a minute fraction of what they promise. A comical “Mayor of Toronto” is one thing (it’s not that powerful of a position), but the POTUS? That’s downright terrifying.

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      XyloThidrekr
      8/11/16 12:41pm
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    mrsharpphotoTom Scocca
    8/11/16 12:19pm

    even if this video was released, the suburb idiots in Toronto would have crowned him mayor for a second time.

    thankfully, we were spared of that mess

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      DAKINS124mrsharpphoto
      8/11/16 2:52pm

      The suburb idiots outside of Toronto.

      FTFY

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesDAKINS124
      8/12/16 1:35am

      No, in Toronto, love. That’s how he got elected mayor. Do you even politics?

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