I may have picked the wrong day to issue my defense of Rob Ford’s verbal infelicities. This morning, the Toronto mayor effortlessly beat his previous best for Soundbite of the Day – in his first ten minutes at City Hall:

Rob Ford left reporters gobsmacked Thursday morning when he denied a new claim that emerged in police documents that he’d berated a female staffer by saying…

Er, well, you’ll have to click over for that.

On the other hand, press conference-wise, if the alternative is Obama’s answer on Iran, I still feel Ford has the edge.