Posted on 01/03/2014 6:08:54 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s inaugural was filled with “backward-looking speeches both graceless and smug” The The New York Times said in a scathing editorial Friday.
The paper’s editorial board called out three inauguration participants for their demagoguery and defended former Mayor Michael Bloomberg from the speakers’ jabs at his tenure.
“Worst among them, but hardly alone, was the new public advocate, Letitia James, who used her moment for her own head-on attack: on the 12 years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg,” read the Times editorial. James, who now holds the office formerly held by de Blasio, brought a 12-year-old girl named Dasani Coates to the stage to highlight child hunger.
“Ms. James turned her into Exhibit A of an Inauguration Day prosecution: the People v. Mayor Bloomberg,” said the Times of Coates’ appearance.
The New York Post reported that James inaccurately claimed to have something to do with shedding light on Coates’ story.
The Times editorial also criticized “the pastor whose invocation likened New York to a “plantation.”
Rev. Fred A. Lucas Jr. of Brooklyn Community Church peppered his bombastic invocation with several references to slavery and bondage, likening the institution to the city’s current struggle with economic inequality and poverty.
The NY Times calling them "Graceless and Smug", well they should know.
Id go well beyond calling em graceless and smug:
Worst among them, but hardly alone, was the new public advocate, Letitia James, who used her moment for her own head-on attack: on the 12 years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg,” read the Times editorial. James, who now holds the office formerly held by de Blasio, brought a 12-year-old girl named Dasani Coates to the stage to highlight child hunger.
that is downright VILE and contemptable!
this is what one could expect from a SANDANISTA supporter who changed his name to get the Italian vote...
Regardless of the tripe it writes, the NY Times is and will always be a LibRag and they can embrace the SUCK along with every other Ny'er.
This idiot will get reigned in by the liberal moneyed elites when the bodies start to pile up.
They sure as hell aren’t going to go back to the 70’s and they remember when Dinkins was mayor.
maybe it’s just because Bill de Blasio is Insane ,LOL
I think they get it but just don’t care. They are going to do what they’re going to do no matter what. Isn’t that what The One is doing?
One question....What is with the new mayor’s son’s Afro????
How passe...for a quick moment I thought it was angela Davis.
Progressives acting badly???????
Shocking.
It must have really been bad for the NYT to notice.
Wilhelm sounds German. In addition to getting the Italian vote I think his name change is also convenient for getting the Jewish vote.
I was wondering the same thing.
A couple of years ago, I started seeing Afros again...at LAX and places like that. I was told they had come back in fashion....
I really wanted to throw up from Bubba’s open Communism about “shared” this-and-that.
Did he change his name?
I suspect the NY Times knows well that with a freak-show of leftists running New York City, it’s just that much easier for the rest of America to decide that they really don’t give a sh!t about the place at all.
I always wondered why Mayor deBlasio’s (Wilhelm’s) keynote speaker Harry Belafonte doesn’t return home to his native Jamaica, as he detests this country and his home country is ruled by a government much closer to his political philosophy. Is it because most of Jamaica is a dump and unsafe?
The inauguration reminded me of the 1970’s timesquare homeless crazy man on a soap box screaming about the end of times.
“What is with the new mayor’s son’s Afro????”
Don’t scoff, that afro won his father the election. Maybe people really DO want to go back to the 70s.
De Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio
yeah I know wacjypedia it was the first reference that my search referenced..
perhap ze name VILHELM vas zeen as a political stumblink block ya??
perhaps the possible association with the infamous Kaiser Wilhelm crossed his mind?
Hitlery and Obama rubber stamp Marxist.
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