Doug Ford and Rob Ford have often devoted some of their show to attacks on people they don't like: opposing councillors, local journalists, city “elites.”

In the latest installment of the mayor's “Ford Nation” YouTube campaign program, they went after an unusual target: actor Kevin Spacey.

Spacey, the star of House of Cards, poked fun at Rob Ford when they both appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night ABC show on the night of the Academy Awards. They had apparently shared a backstage room; Spacey joked that the mayor “threw up all over it.”

On the YouTube show, released on Friday, Doug Ford, his brother's campaign manager, criticized Spacey in harsh terms and at length — in a segment entitled “Kevin Spacey.”

Kimmel, Doug Ford said, is a “down-to-earth guy” who posed for a photograph with anyone who asked.

“And then there was this Kevin Spacey. Okay?” he began. “I want to start off with saying Kevin Spacey is an incredible actor.”

Rob Ford interjected with a shrug: “I don't watch movies. I wouldn't know him if I ran him over.”

Doug Ford continued, visibly angry: “In my opinion, he's an arrogant S.O.B., and I'll tell you the reason why. Any actor that makes a living off the people that watch his shows — he wouldn't take a picture with anyone? We were told you can't take a picture, and you can't speak to him. Who does this character think he is?”

Rob Ford: “I don't even know him.”

Doug Ford continued: “He thinks he's God? He's up there? That no common folk can take a picture?”

He concluded with a direct-to-camera address, perhaps a tribute to Spacey character Frank Underwood: “You know, Kevin, why don't you get off your high horse and be real and take pictures with people?”

Rob Ford attempted one final time to calm Doug Ford down: “You gotta be careful, because you know what, maybe he does take pictures and we're not aware of it.”

All three of this week's videos, in which Doug Ford spoke much more than Rob, were devoted largely to the brothers' trip to Hollywood.

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In another of the videos, Rob Ford explained a TMZ report that he was using an expensive poolside cabana during a post-Oscar party. He said he had merely asked a cabana-dweller to sit down on a vacant cushion.

“They make up stories,” Doug Ford said. “They insinuated that we spent money, $2,500, which is an outright lie. And if I wasn't too busy sitting here with you, I'd be suing their ass off right now, to be frank with you.”

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