Posted on 02/11/2020 6:54:58 AM PST by bobsunshine
Michael Bloomberg representatives have asked the Aspen Institute not to distribute footage of his recent appearance in Aspen, where the three-term New York City mayor made pointed comments concerning minorities and gun control.
Both the Institute and GrassRoots TV, the organization that filmed the event, confirmed Thursday that they will not broadcast the footage online or on television as planned.
“We basically honor the wishes of our speakers, and Mayor Bloomberg preferred that we not use the video for broadcast,” the Institute’s chief external affairs officer Jim Spiegelman wrote in an email Friday. “He did not give a reason nor did we have any reason to ask for one. We often feature speakers who prefer that their presentations not be videotaped.”
Appearing before nearly 400 people in Aspen on Feb. 5, the billionaire founder of Bloomberg L.P. argued that in order to save lives, police should seize guns from male minorities between ages 15 and 25.
“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said during the speech. “So they just don’t have any longterm focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”
(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...
More info at Zerohedge, but not allowed to publish on FreeRepublic - they are not on the "list" but banned anyway. Don't know why moderators hate ZeroHedge. They have some good news coverage and analysis.
Grassroots TV is flying top cover for a billionaire? LMAO. What frauds the American Left is.
How queer. The LA times sat on footage of Barack Obama toasting a terrorist.
Very Intersting. Tiger Claws just posted a Trump Tweet about this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3815482/posts
The Tweet was deleted. Did Twitter violate the Free Speech of our Commander in Chief? Or did Trump self delete it?
He probably bought the rights for a million. The media played the Trump Hollywood today video a million times, and they’ll be happy to suppress this one - no bias here right?
Did Trump actually tweet. Even if deleted, there should be an image of it. I haven’t seen one.
Had that been a Trump speech, it would have been leaked far and wide.
It's a copy-and-paste directly from the article.
Grab more popcorn—this is getting to be fun!
Bloomberg has already poured many millions into his astroturf campaign, was showing third on national democratic polls, showed as the strongest Democratic candidate in the polls against the President, and now he won’t be able to appear anywhere without getting booed and called a racist.
_Love_ it!
Sounds more like a Conspiracy to Commit Campaign Finance Regulations through Illegal In Kind Contributions by the Aspen Institute and Grass Roots
Its in post 3 of that thread.
The audio is out there, the media will NEVER play it.
A side comment about Zero Hedge: I like the site and go there often. The articles are usually interesting, and the ZH posters are quite witty.
But...many posters there are very antisemitic. They post some horrible stuff and ZH just leaves it up. The site also seems pro-Russian.
If I owned Free Republic, I think I’d ban Zero Hedge based on the antisemitic stuff alone.
What Bloomberg said was true. But he is a Democrat and unfortunately for him, in that mosh pit political correctness takes precedence over truth.
Michael Bloomberg representatives have asked the Aspen Institute not to distribute footage of his recent appearance in Aspen, where the three-term New York City mayor made pointed comments concerning minorities and gun control.
Thanks bobsunshine.
Fake News and Net Neutrality is all about controlling the message.
Both began in CA and were used to flip the state to Ultra Blue after Regan won it in 80-84.
These people will never give up until they control the message in all 57 States.
That's reasonable.
/s
Seems like it’s getting out there.
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