Toronto Mayor Rob Ford slammed the media as "a bunch of maggots" for reporting on a video that allegedly showed him smoking crack with a gang of Somali drug dealers.
Ford and his brother, City Councilor Doug Ford, didn't mince words while attacking the press on his weekly talk radio show Sunday, calling "80 percent" of reporters "nasty son-of-a-guns."
"Bunch of maggots," the embattled mayor grumbled.
He added quickly, "Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said that."
The 43-year-old mayor has come under fire after journalists for the Toronto Star and Gawker said in separate reports that they watched a 90-second clip of him smoking a glass crack pipe with men in a downtown crack house.
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Ford flatly denied the stories at a news conference Friday, saying he does not smoke crack and is not addicted to the drug.
"As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist," he said.
He did not say whether he has ever used the drug and did not take any questions, irritating some pols and members of the press.
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