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 eating their own - gracefully!
I can hardly wait for ACT 1 to start.
I never had warm feelings toward Bloomberg until these amateurs got their sorry kiesters up on that platform. What a disgrace. After all the illustrious mayors we have had. No city for old men.
My heart goes out to those who voted for his opponent.
For those who voted for him, up yours.
Thanks Titus-Maximus.
They are just following Obama’s playbook. As soon as Obama took office, they never failed to take a swipe at President Bush at any given moment.
He's got the power, and intends to go full Stalin on anybody who gets in his way.
“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.”
Demographics don’t favor the “liberal moneyed elites”; the Bolshevik revolution taking place (first with Obama, now with DeBlasio) is occurring at the ballot box. NYC has already chased out much of its middle & upper class; the dregs remaining outnumber the productive class. DeBlasio crushed his opponent, even with all his history out there.
“My heart goes out to those who voted for his opponent.”
He was a lib leftie as well; he just didn’t learn that you can’t out-lib a Democrat, and the race card carries the hand...
DeBlasio has to go where the money is to fund his socialist programs and one of the prime sources has to be the greatest concentration of wealthy left liberals in the US outside of San Fran and Hollywood - the Upper West Side of Manhattan with multimillion dollar condos and co-ops populated by Broadway stars, trust fund babies and far leftists by mouth but not by lifestyle. This should be real interesting!
he.... and his afro... are the embodiement of Shirely The Waitress from WHATS HAPPENING
LOL.
what a stylish family! all style no moral compass...
wait until the dems give him the POTUS nomination...oh BOY
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