De Blasio Confronts a Crisis Over the Police and Race With a Practiced Calm

NY Times ^ | 12/23/14 | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, NIKITA STEWART

[Libloather]

Mayor Bill de Blasio, confronting the gravest crisis of his young administration, has been by turns composed and defiant, empathetic and indignant, urging calm in one moment and lashing out in frustration the next.

In other words, he has acted like himself: a confident but mercurial leader whose singular political style has not wavered, even in the face of a potentially career-defining flash point over the police and race.

In a sharp turn from his predecessors — the pugnacious, prosecutorial Rudolph W. Giuliani and the business-minded Michael R. Bloomberg — Mr. de Blasio, a political professional who promised a warmer, friendlier City Hall, is approaching the fallout from the shooting deaths of two police officers with an operative’s touch, and a healthy dose of the personal.

[exit82]

A practiced calm?

He looked like he needed new underwear to me!

[MV=PY]

How could anyone write this crap?

Unreal.

[jmacusa]

Being ‘’mercurial’’ and ‘’confident’’ are two entirely different and opposing states of being. Does anyone at the NY Times ever consult a dictionary?

[jmacusa]

Throw in a set of knee-pads.

[NonValueAdded]

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ... perhaps you have misread the situation.

[MeshugeMikey]

“a confident but mercurial leader whose singular political style has not wavered,”

that coud be said to have defined any bumber of tyrants of days gone by

hitler stalin,,,mao,,,any number of Caesers,,,

[catnipman]

“Being ‘’mercurial’’ and ‘’confident’’ are two entirely different and opposing states of being.”

Yeah, and ya just gotta love that NYT touts the virtue of being unwaveringly mercurial!

One has to wonder if any of their remaining readers have critical thinking skills. Perhaps that’s all they have left as readers: folks who lack critical thinking skills.

[A_Former_Democrat]

LOL . . . just when one thinks they couldn’t get any more imaginative . .

Merry Christmas to all, esp @ NYT

[jmacusa]

This is what happens when ‘’journalism’’ degrees are handed out like prizes at a seaside boardwalk “Whack-A-Mole’’ game to kids who can’t even spell their own names.

[mojo114]

Deblasio looks like a weak man with strong believes that can get chattered.
He will need Sharpton to come in and buck that man up.
Phoney, fake, fraud the two of them. We can name more....

[tflabo]

Wait until the NY Slimes blg. gets a serious looting from the thugs. They won’t be licking Wilhelm’s boots then.

[mosesdapoet]

Time for the “grey old lady” to quit working the streets while throwing defication against the walls or get booted off her corner as a public hazard.

[tflabo]

Venezuela is in some serious need for cheap toilet paper.
NY slimes already comes with crap on it so a little more on top won’t hurt before its flushed down the ‘terlets’.

[tioga]

Practiced calm? LMAO So, he’s too stupid to know he’s in a world of trouble/ One termer. He better get used to it.

[umgud]

De Blasio has an NYPD protection detail who protects him from; other cops? or criminals?

[MtnMan101]

[timestax]

[eddie willers]

has been by turns composed and defiant, empathetic and indignant, urging calm in one moment and lashing out in frustration the next.

In other words...wishy washy.

[God luvs America]

LOL....

NYSlimes calm = cowardice and incompetence....

[Phosgood]

This IS a CLASSIC !!!!!!