Posted on 02/15/2022 2:26:51 PM PST by thegagline
Mayor Eric Adams unloaded Tuesday in an epic rant in which he threatened to stop fielding “off-topic” questions at his press conferences — and blasted the Big Apple’s news organizations over what he said was their lack of racial diversity.
The scolding, which came before an unrelated press conference on summer youth employment efforts, appeared to be sparked by coverage of his failed bid to get state lawmakers to budge on his anti-crime agenda — although the mayor failed to convey how race factored into that.
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“If you want to acknowledge or not, I have been doing a darn good job and we just can’t live in this alternate reality,” a clearly angered a clearly angered Adams said.
Adams also warned that if the coverage of him doesn’t improve, “I’m just going to come in and do my announcements and bounce.”
Adams repeatedly suggested that race played a factor in news coverage of him, telling an almost all-white group of reporters who were hand-picked by his office and invited to cover the City Hall news conference, “I’m a black man that’s the mayor but my story is being interpreted by people that don’t look like me.”
“How many blacks are on editorial boards? How many blacks determine how these stories are being written?” he said.
“How many Asians? How many East Asians? How many South Asians? Everyone talks about my government being diversified, what’s the diversification in the newsrooms?”
Adams also accused the reporters of “writing through your prisms” before adding: “Diversify your newsrooms so I can look out and see people who look like me.” ***
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In what way? Oh, so he’s not really the mayor?
Dealing the race card like a Vegas croupier!
He IS an alternate reality.
NYCers keep getting what they voted for.
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Hey stupid! A prism shows all colors.
Has Snake Plissken started working out yet, the way NYC is going, he’s going to be needed?
One scumbag loon after another.
Its always whitey’s fault.
He’s correct...
However, when you are a scum-sucking communist POS, you don’t have grounds to complain...
...blasted the Big Apple’s news organizations over what he said was their lack of racial diversity... appeared to be sparked by coverage of his failed bid to get state lawmakers to budge on his anti-crime agenda — although the mayor failed to convey how race factored into that... Adams repeatedly suggested that race played a factor in news coverage of him, telling an almost all-white group of reporters who were hand-picked by his office and invited to cover the City Hall news conference...
When he gets capped, the perp won't be white, he or she will just be described as white by these very same partisan media stooges.
I thought he’d be a little better, but he’s just an incompetent, more racist and nasty version of Dinkins.
Liberal Lesbian Licker Lightweight Lori Lightfoot already accused the press in Chicago for being racist for asking her tough questions.
NYC should tell it's new Mayor Dinkins that he should try something original.
I see he’s taking a page from Biden. Come in, read prepared speech and walk away. Why not save time and just put out a press release with you speech?
Good thing this guy isn’t a racist. LOL.
Took him a while to recognize fake news. We’ve been saying it for years.
The same old bullsh*it. Over and over and over.
So he’s insecure in his incompetence and blames it on Whitey.
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