NYC Mayor Throwdown: De Blasio Hits At Bloomberg’s ‘Wealth-Backed, Self-Centered Delusion’

It’s mayor vs. mayor.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio put his predecessor, 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg, on blast Thursday morning after the billionaire said during a CNN town hall that “hopefully” de Blasio had “learned from my mistake” with regards to Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policy. De Blasio repealed the policy, which was (by Bloomberg’s own admission) designed to target black and Hispanic New Yorkers, after he was elected in 2013.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1293642

I just don’t understand the obsession with destroying the Dem candidates for POTUS. Between the BIden story and now this one, TPM is not helpful. Not at all.

BTW - there’s a lot of stuff going on with coronavirus this morning. But nothing here. Nothing at all mid-morning.

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When they go low, we go low???

The news media didn’t see the same presser we did, apparently. One example.



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Has there even BEEN a story on TPM about the presser? I see nothing on my front page…

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Yes. Click on “news”. There were a couple or three posted last night.

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OT Today In Drip, Drip, Drip

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Thanks - have to wonder why I’m seeing 15 - 18 hour and 2 day old stories on the front page, but this stuff is buried.

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Sheeeeeit, and we thought Nixon was corrupt!!

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Here’s one.

Obama would have been excoriated by the press … etc.
The Feds kept putting off the local PH authorities.

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Warren is trying to do something about this:

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Something Bill DeBlasio says is the banner headline today?

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Comic relief?

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The refusal to let the patient use the box sure sounds like coverup or at least incompetence, especially considering there’re still just a few cases in the US and boxes aren’t in short supply. No test means no confirmed cases and makes it look good for the market. At this point, transparency is greatly needed but that’s not something ttump’s good at.

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Yes. And it’s an emerging pattern. He wants to control all information flow, not just that from DoJ and the IC. He’s the white Idi Amin. This is what dictators do. No potentially embarrassing or revealing information about the perfidies of the dictator gets out to the public.

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Supposedly, the disastrous spread in Italy has been attributed to a single case that wasn’t properly handled at the hospital. This sounds like similar mismanagement.

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Also, the markets are down about 3% this morning. It doesn’t seem that yesterday’s presser inspired confidence.

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The markets know what this new case means even if Trump doesn’t.

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Lack of planning and transparency. The true “antitrump” isn’t Bernie. It’s Liz Warren.

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She’s a great senator and I’d hoped she’d be a great candidate for president, but…

Mistakes were made?

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