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Rob Ford and brother Councillor Doug Ford wasted little time going on the offensive after a week of drug allegations against the two of them, with the Toronto mayor calling journalists a “bunch of maggots” within minutes of the start of the Fords’ weekly radio show.

Doug Ford was slightly more charitable, saying only “80% of them are nasty son of a guns” and “journalism has sunk to an all-time low.”

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“This is all ridiculous,” Mayor Ford said, without directly addressing the specifics of the drug allegations.

The mayor said he can’t wait to run for reelection in 2014 and the Fords promised to take the their agenda to “the people.”

Nearly an hour into the program the Fords did not take any questions from callers, although with five minutes left of Mayor Ford’s time on the radio program they took calls from three people.

The first two calls were from those who said they completely supported the mayor, but the third caller, named “Pam” asked Rob Ford directly if he was smoking crack in a video as Gawker reported and if that was him in the widely-circulated photo of Ford with his arm around Anthony Smith, a 21-year-old who was gunned down earlier this year.