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Some follow-up to Mayor Bloomberg's exchange with Observer (and PolitickerNY) reporter Azi Paybarah. The NY Times described that the mayor "seemed to reach new heights of peevishness, calling a reporter who posed a question he did not like 'a disgrace.'" (The question was whether the mayor, who spoke of an economic turnaround, oversold his pitch for overturning term limits.) CBS 2 reported, "Many would say the reporter's question was relevant, especially since the city's failing economy is one of the reasons Bloomberg sought an exemption from term limits." Paybarah's editor Josh Benson told the Daily News, "It was a reasonable question. We're comfortable leaving it to everyone else to judge the quality of the response." A spokewoman for City Comptroller and mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson said, "What’s disgraceful is the Mayor’s refusal to answer the tough questions. Calling people names, having staff block cameras and bullying the press aren’t going to stop people from asking the mayor to explain his term limits bait and switch." The Mayor apologized, though indirectly; according to Paybarah, Bloomberg's press secretary Stu Loeser "called to relay an apology from the mayor."
Mayor Bloomberg Sorry After Disgraceful Q&A With Reporter
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Apologized like Otto in A Fish Called Wanda:
Mayor Bloomberg: [practicing his apology] Oh, I'm so very, very, very ssssssssssss... F*CK YOU!
This will bode well when the campaigns begin. I hope his opponents show this response in every commercial. Bloomberg and his merry band of millionaires/billionaires turning the city into their own private playground is the real disgrace here.
Yeah let's leave it to the professional politicians so they can sell the jobs.
We're sorry too...That we ever elected him. He's a god damned black cloud of corporate development that doesn't listen to the general population and who wont go away!!!
Agreed. We'll be stuck choosing between an entitled arrogant billionaire or a self-centered egotistical political hack.
I really can't understand the overwrought reaction to his answer. He got a little testy, so what!
Bloomberg Defending Term Limits! Calls Defying Public Opinion On Term Limits A Disgrace! Who's the Disgrace Now? http://tinyurl.com/5zsptc
DID I SAY I HATE BLOOMIE?
He didn't even apologize personally and what did he apologize for? for the disgrace remark or for the refusal to answer the question or both? Also he still hasn't address the question.
Bloommie got got. That's the bottom line.
It's like when I have to tell someone who's blocking others on a train that there's no need to hold on tight to the railing when the train's stopped and the doors are open. Do they say "yeah, you're right, duh." No. They get mad and start talking shit. Why? Because they feel fuckin stupid, and are too insecure to acknowledge it.
Again, the reporter called him out. There was nothing he could've said to save himself. So, like my dumb subway-riding brethren, he just gets mad and defensive.
If you look the video I posted above you'll see that what Bloomberg did directly contradicts what he said before. He flipped on the issue. He marketed a 3rd term to the public as a financial necessity and he doesn't want to let go of his NYC playground with so many business deals to do. But many people are tired of Bloomberg's building projects and so forth that go on without much if any public input and many of us don't feel obliged to support his desire to run again. In my opinion Bloomberg has lost touch with the public and maybe even his own moral compass. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and we're seeing too much of that going on here. The man circumvented public opinion on term limits and keeps acting like a tyrant at public events and I think if he had let his term limits be fulfilled and move on he'd have gone out a much more popular Mayor that he will now. Mike Bloomberg could be involved in philanthropy - the 18 million dollars he has spent flagrantly ignoring the 2 referendums on term limits could have been used to really benefit someone besides him and the excessive mailings by the campaign, to me, contradicts his environmentally friendly facade. The only green Bloomberg is loyal to is money and if that weren't true he wouldn't be doing this. Americans already felt what it was like for the power of their vote to be rendered potentially meaningless in the 2000 elections - and to me not only is this campaign a disturbing reminder of that kind of pre-emptive politics and swift boating - but I am less inclined now, because of those events, to sympathize with corporate businessmen who will do anything to get into office to advance their business interests. Quite frankly, after the latest economic melt down, you'd think New Yorkers would want to see anything but something like that take the helm.
Cant stand this guy.