Picking on bloggers is un-Acceptable, but picking on and publically showing up a blogger, a disabled and wheelchair supported citizen as well, well, that is as low as it gets, and Billionaire NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg should be ashamed of himself, for these and other reasons.
In case you wondered, I am not a big fan of Bloomberg's. My original diary on him for tonight was titled "Down With Morgoth! Down With King Mike Bloomberg!". I have included that full snark diary as a whole underneath this one, seeing as this issue is much more important. Consider it a Friday night Double Feature.
Picking on disabled people and bloggers, who dare to question the might of Lord Bloomberg, how dare they. Of course, this gives Mike Bloomberg the right to treat you like an ass on live TV. Of course Bloomberg is right, that guy in the wheel char probably deserved it, the clumsy ass.
More on how low Bloomberg can go below the fold
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he's sorry to a disabled blogger that he singled out and embarrassed at a news conference.
Bloomberg took the blogger, Michael Harris, aside at an event on Friday and apologized.
A day earlier, Bloomberg stopped a news conference for more than 90 seconds when Harris's tape recorder inadvertently began playing in the pocket of his coat. Harris, who wears hearing aids and uses a wheelchair, did not hear it at first, and then had trouble reaching it.
1010wins.com
An apology that was quickly dismissed as insincere by the blogger Harris, as it is obvious to anyone else. This was the moment which sparked the reaction by our soverign lord democratically twice elected Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
I wonder what huge issue was so important King Bloomberg couldn't buy enough class to wait patiently. How dare a mere blogger (who is a disabled American and who is hard of hearing) not move fast enough to turn off their terrible recorder! How is everyone going to have their stage love camera moment with this going on. Albany has important business that just can't wait!
What a friggin joke. Anybody in NY can tell you the only thing Albany does fast is help themselves, just ask James Tedisco.
Here is the reaction Mike Harris had to Bloomberg's quiet apology.
After bristling at a disabled reporter whose jostled tape recorder briefly interrupted a news conference on Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg privately approached the reporter on Friday morning to deliver an oblique apology.
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Mr. Bloomberg’s words did not exactly satisfy Mr. Harris, who held his own news conference outside City Hall on Friday to both praise and rebuke the mayor, nor did it satisfy advocates for the disabled, who criticized Mr. Bloomberg for appearing insensitive.
In an interview, Mr. Harris said Mr. Bloomberg spoke to him for less than three minutes and told him that he apologized if Mr. Harris was offended.
"Which is not totally sincere," Mr. Harris said. "The mayor’s apology was a conditional apology. But I believe it was sufficient to allow us both to move on."
NYTimes
As for the apology, I am sure you heard it. After all, it's not like Mike Bloomberg doesn't have his name on a damned TV channel.
Of all the low down dirty undemocratic things a Billionaire could do. No apology is good enough for me.
Down With King Bloomberg!
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Part Two of your Friday Night Double Feature :
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"Don With Lord Morgoth! Down With King Mike Bloomberg!"
I just made my Escape From New York. As an unemployed plebian it has become too rich for my blood. Imagine my surprise when turning on the TV in a new area code and discovering Mike Bloomberg runs a TV ad seemingly all day, every day, in an expensive advertising market.
I had thought I had escaped his kingdom, but Lord Bloomberg has sway even in these distant parts. I thought I would escape his grasp by moving to Port Jervis for a while, out in the wilderness of NY-19, but alas, the servants of Lord Bloomberg have found a way to get to me even here. I have no where else to turn to, but I will not give up. You have profited and I have lost. You rule and I will not kneel.
Mike Bloomberg, I name you Morgoth, the enemy of the Free People of New York and King of the Economic Void! You are a tyrant, but I will no longer be your thrall.
Down with the King of New York!
Who needs Democracy when you are in the Top Ten of the Wealthiest Americans? Why even bother with elections and two voter referendums when you have A Billion Dollars or Twenty to spare. Mike Bloomberg is the King of New York, and he has been for a long time. I guess I was the last person to realize it. Who needs term limits? We don't need no stinking term limits!
Who needs NYC campaign finance limits either? What the hell is the point of being obscenely rich if you can't use it to your overwhelming advantage. How is Bloomberg supposed to pay for pay for ex-McCain advisors to help him run a clean campaign like Jill Hazelbacker, McCain's communications director in his failed 2008 Presidential campaign. Do you think push polling phone calls pay for themselves? Do you think His Lordship Mike Bloomberg didn't plunder the barren wastelands of every junk bond possible to get where he is today? Do you think he didn't see it coming when every Credit Default Swap burst like a water balloon factory with a magnifying glass sunroof? His Majesty of Industry Mike Bloomberg needs no such things! His round table of noble Jim Cramer wannabees work tirelessly to defend the honor of their royal Kingdom, The Financial Market on Walled Street.
Deep within Walled Street, an army of alchemists work in the dark light near their forges devising ways to turn lead into gold. The Alchemists Leauge compromises the financial wizards and the Captains of Industry, both those of birthright and of noble character. The furnances they labor in deep in the bowels of the earth, where the light of the Trading floors never go out and the labyrinth of halls goes ever on and on. It is here that the Captains of Industry endeavor ceaselessly to make brighter and stronger jewels, but they lack the skill to make anything that lasts. When lead is too expensive even in the asian market, shit is a suitable substitute good. These alchemists turn shit into gold, gold into paper, even paper into thin air! Mighty is the power of our Lords, their wizards are powerful and to be feared. They can wipe out entire companies overnight!
His Majesty Mike Bloomberg soon became master of the Alchemists Leauge and renamed it Bloomberg News, after his inner Newsie childhood daydreams in days long gone. Now that he is the Wealthiest Man in New York, Lord Bloomberg can do as he pleases. Once a Democrat, then a Republican, and now an Independant, what difference does it even make at this point? Mike Bloomberg is the King of New York, just as others nationwide of the noble class rule their own little principalities and municipalities. While we wage class war upon ourselves the Grand Ball still goes on, the music never skips a beat.
The Alchemy of the Financial Wizards and the Captains of Industry will always fail, because they are not made for everybody or by everybody, they are made for the noble class and by the noble class. They are like toys made of wood, which may last a few generatiions but will always turn to dust. This is why the Lords and Nobles are always doomed to fail, and why the will of a free and democratic people will always prevail.
King George W Bush of Texas once sought to rule the USA, and for a short while he did, but the Fates arrived in the forms of Stupid, Incompetant and Corrupt and ended the legacy of George W Bush early in his Kingship. Lord Bloomberg hopes to do otherwise. He shall strip the term limits and campaign finance limits out of City Hall, and build a thrown of skulls and cut city services in a palace built of Ivory and speculation, which no electoral challenger shall ever build an army against. The rivers of money circling the Emerald Island of Manhattan like a moat will keep all of serfs like us in the fileds at work, circulating in the bowl Bloomberg mixes his wine in.
John Galt isn't going anywhere, he is building himself a crown. The Silmarils of Freedom, Wealth and Power rest in Bloombergs burning hand as he hammers his crown to shape with the spirit of our Democracy.
The Ads for Long Live Bloomberg won't stop! We must not give in! No matter how many shitty bootlicking articles like this one from the NYTimes try to point out the problem while casting the worst light on the most qualified challengers.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an independent, has produced two polished commercials, running on all the major local network affiliates, at a cost of $3 million.
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To introduce its ads, Mr. Bloomberg’s campaign held a news conference at its large headquarters; it previewed the ads for reporters; and it e-mailed a transcript of the ads to reporters. The result: stories in every major newspaper in the city.
MONEY
The ads showcase Mr. Bloomberg’s staggering financial advantage, which allows him — seven months before the election — to run ads that most New Yorkers will see about 12 times each.
The article went on to call the Democratic candidate William C. Johnsoon Jr negative, as is evidenced by this You Tube Video
King Bloomberg's ads are much more optimistic, according to the NYTimes, when he reminds us the troubled times ahead that wasn't created by people just like him, we are encouraged to look ahead to the things he didn't get done in his first two elected four year terms.
Pssshaw, away with you and your negativity. Rest assured that these are tough times wea re going through, well, except King Bloomberg and the Noble class. No one in the Top Ten wealthiest Americans are losing their heads over this.
Lord Morgoth, Mike Bloomberg of New York, King of The Economic Void, I will never bow to you. You are not A#1
Even if you put me up on the wall, you couldn't make me say it.
When my time comes, I am going to phone bank my ass off for whoever runs against Bloomberg on the left. I hate Kings! I am a Democrat.
Picking on bloggers is unacceptable.
Picking on disabled citizens is inexcusable.
Down with King Bloomberg!