Yes, this is Photoshoppery.
Remember that Simpsons episode when Mr. Burns showed up in a terrible disguise as “Mr. Snrub, from…someplace far away” at a Springfield town hall meeting to suggest that the town give some money to his nuclear power plant?
What sort of person would think that such obvious astroturfing would fool anyone in real life? That person would have to be on crack.
This isn’t the first time that Mayor Ford has used astroturfing to support his positions. Dave Price, who’s now Ford’s director of operations and logistics, used to call in to the mayor’s radio show as “Dave from Etobicoke”, “Dave from Scarborough”, and Dave from various other locations in Toronto and surrounding areas to carpet bomb the Ford brothers with praise. You might be interested to know that Dave was also Rob’s high school football coach and his campaign manager during the 2010 mayoral election.
For those of you with good ears, you can compare “Ian’s” voice from the recording above with these recordings of Rob Ford’s voice. Luckily for us, as a public figure and a guy with his own talk radio show, it’s easy to get samples of Ford’s voice. I’ve provided some below — enjoy!
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I think every Ian in Toronto should weigh in as to their culpability. If they all deny it, all signs will point to Rob. By the by, if you haven't read the Torontoist's Rob Ford Radio Show recaps, you're missing out. http://torontoist.com/tag/rob-ford-radio-recap/