All I can say is, watch out for politicians going on about the gravy train. You elect a buffoon into office and you get four years of Rob Ford. =(

We're still hurting over that one.

At least Rob Ford has Crack as an excuse...

As a Canadian of Asian descent, I just want to back up Colbert, here. If satire is "the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues," then I think he knocked this one out of the park. A lot of folks don't see "Redskins" as an offensive term because they grew up with it being everywhere; exaggerating and applying the same idea to the Asian population really highlights how ridiculous the name of this foundation is, but only because Western culture has only just recently started to agree that phrases like "Ching chong ding dong", "orientals" (unless you're Rob Ford), "gook", "slant", "chink", etc, are actually really offensive. If a pro sports team came up with the name "Vancouver Chinamen" or "Detroit Negroes" today (coupled with stereotypical logos) there would be a massive and immediate outrage. The only reason the Redskins have gotten away with their name is that the team was named long enough ago that the racial slur was widely acceptable to the non-First Nations public.

And really, this parallels racial awareness in North America; although racism is still very much a thing for people of all races, the First Nations population is still being outstandingly and horribly marginalized with very little support or attention being paid to them or their (still appallingly denied) rights. Here in Canada (in which we boast great racial and cultural diversity, the "cultural mixed salad" vs the US "melting pot"), we still haven't done anything to amend the fact that when we got here we took brutal advantage of a trusting and helpful culture, booted them out to the worst parts of the country and stranded them there.

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Zooming in close proximity to a crack: better known as the Rob Ford maneuver.

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Nice try Rob Ford.

Slow zoom-out reveals the logo on the front of each truck-"Sinaloa Cartel"

Splits
Pan-out wide

Transition, Fade outro:
Cocaine. It's a Helluva Drug
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"I'm Rob Ford and I approve of the following message":
Snort Blow Off Strippers Thighs-Rock The Vote

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1. Schadenforde
Delighting in the undoing of Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford.

And Toronto apparently has no mechanism for impeachment unless the Mayor is actually convicted of a crime. So we're gonna be hearing from Rob Ford for a while LOL