The Ford Flack Method: How to Turn a Simple Question into a Six-Day Tax-Dodging Story John Cook · 02/16/10 12:54PM After six glorious days, the festival of incompetent flackery that was the "Harold Ford Doesn't Pay His Taxes" story is over. Ford's spokesman has finally told us, on the record, that Ford filed New York returns in 2007 and 2008.