Former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson pokes Rob Ford crack video scandal in music video

For everyone who is sick of attacks against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, this one is for you.

Ford's alleged exploits surrounding crack cocaine and the recording thereof was skewered today in a music video purportedly meant to promote transit growth in the city.

The video appears to be the handiwork of former mayoral candidate Sarah Thompson, publisher of Women's Post magazine. You may also recall her as the woman who accused Ford of groping her while in an altered state at a recent event.

The music video was released on Women's Post's website on Thursday and on their YouTube page (which appears to have been freshly created for the video's release).

The video, entitled "Broken," begins with images of someone holding a pipe hidden behind a thick veil of smoke and then tangents into a call to improve transit.

"Amid the scandal and smoke that swirls around city hall it is good to know their are some people and organizations in Toronto who push forward to tackle the real issues holding back our city," the Women's Post blog begins.

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The video is credited to the Toronto Transit Alliance, of which Thomson is a member. She appears in the video and appears to be singing, but that could have been overdubbed.

It is no secret Thomson isn't a fan of Ford. Aside from the groping allegations, she has not been afraid to pile on Ford.

"Like any bully, the only way I know to stop them is to punch them back, expose their lies, and never back down," she wrote in a recent blog post.

"Eventually their supporters will see them for the privileged and spoiled charlatans they are and abandon them."

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The bizarre inclusion of a crack pipe image in an entirely unrelated music video may have been a punch at Ford, but it didn't go over well with pretty much anyone. Neither did a since-deleted Twitter post last night in which Thomson claims “Women’s Post has the video,” without actually saying it was the video that all of Toronto has been searching for.

On YouTube, user "matthewpearn" said:

One commenter on Women's Post called those responsible, "cheap, unprofessional stuntsters." Another commenter put it more succinctly.

"Congratulations. The internet hates you."