New York, NY – Two of New York City’s major daily newspapers are slamming new Mayor Bill de Blasio and his roster of progressive inaugural day speakers over the disingenuousness they projected Wednesday, not only towards outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg, but at the city and their fellow New Yorkers, as well.
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In the NEW YORK POST (http://bit.ly/1bBSxcP), Michael Goodwin writes that while Bloomberg, over the course of his twelve years, “provoked in me admiration and anger, passionate support and dismissive ridicule…never once did I feel sorry for him—until yesterday.”
“Mayor bill de Blasio and his entourage of ‘progressives’ were as cold as the weather. Shame on them,” Goodwin writes of the speeches that, one after another, painted New York as a decisively divided city, with the ‘haves’ holding dictatorial rule over the ‘have nots.’
In the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS’ (http://nydn.us/1dcZvWM) op-ed, Joshua Greenman notes that before delivering a “prayer for the success of a mayor who says he wants to unify New York,” Sanitation Department chaplain Rev. Fred Lucas “called this city of 8.3 million people a ‘plantation.'”
“If that’s what New York City is, some of us are slaves; some of us, slave owners. Which are you, fellow citizen?” asks Greenman.
Greenman writes that “the grim tone was echoed by speaker after speaker,” all the way down to a “youth poet laureate who pitted people in brownstones (many of whom live down the street from de Blasio) against people with brown skin.”
Both papers note that it wasn’t until the second-to-last speaker of the day, former President Bill Clinton, that someone momentarily suspended the Bloomberg and New York City bashing long enough to acknowledge the many successes and improvements Bloomberg delivered over the course of his tenure.
“He leaves the city stronger and healthier than he found it,” Clinton said of the outgoing mayor.
Goodwin writes that “Bloomberg did so much more than that, yet had he been a scoundrel, he wouldn’t have been treated with less respect. By the end, I no longer felt sorry for Bloomberg. I envied him. He was getting out of town.”
If he would have left after the two legal terms, the reception would have been much different. That is a fact.
Too late New Yorkers you elected these communists and third worlds so eat what you cooked.
These are the “progressive” messages of Socialists, comrades. In their world, all are equal – as in equally poor while the leaders must have better provisions to bear the burden of leadership. Welcome to Amerika. Keep up the silence. That’s their hope.
There will be a time in the very near future when we will be reminiscing about the Bloomberg days and wishing for him to have run for a fourth term. The demise of our city starts today.
The liberal attitude is if your a minority you automatically deserve to have everything handed to you on a silver platter. And if your a non minority and have been successful it’s bc your greedy and unfair. To call any city in the most democratic country in the world a ‘plantation’ is preposterous. How can you take anything they say seriously??
Bravo-numbers 1-5 you really get it.DiB and his 3rd world entourage are going
to bleed this city dry with new communist social programs redistributing the wealth
of the working classes to the parasites.No longer will NY be the BIG APPLE-
Welcome to the RED WATERMELON !
Things will be better in Brooklyn. the streets will be clean from the snow. policemen wont be needed to patrol. its a better new day. Eyes can see it now!
I’m not the biggest fan of Bloomberg but DiBlasio and Co. have pretty big shoes to fill before they can even begin to denigrade the previous administartion.
Because talk, especially from politicians, are indeed cheap!
Success means nothing to progressives if you are white. If you are white you don’t deserve to enjoy your toil and efforts- no, you must give up huge portions of your income, spread the wealth, and give it those who don’t bother to pay attention in high school, don’t go to college/trade school, have a menial day job and wonder why they are poor.
That is progressives – they have no class or grace. It gets in the way of their politics.
And unfortunately some people think that they have a problem with have and have-nots. They don’t, they just want to make sure they are on the “haves” side.
Stop complaining and go back to your plantations so that the cotton gets picked on time.
And he didn’t do it for money … Never took a salary. So in essence he did us a favor. Recipients of favors are known to acknowledge their benefactors by throwing stones at them. Mayor Bloomberg is hardy and won’t suffer any ill effects. Besides, history will treat him right.
He is going to be like Obama, blame previous administration for all the City problems.
You can see Bloomberg is upset. He would not take his glove off the shake Clinton hand.
Big mistake Mr. President, no money are coming from Bloomberg to your foundation.
My advice to Bloomberg: get yourself a younger and better looking girlfriend and enjoy life.
The article uses the word “disingenuousness”. My understanding of that word is “lacking in sincerity”.
While I was not a big fan of Bloomberg, I would say that yesterdays ceremony was “classless” and rude.
bloombergs legacy is proof of the adage “too much of a good thing is no good”
all his laws metzitza bpeh etc that irked the city were enacted during his last infamous term
The Rev. is correct. The City is Plantation.However, it is upside down Plantation.
I have a few black friends and don’t see them for the color of their skin. However, DeBlasio being married to a black needs to make all the excuses in the world for it and that definitely defines his politics.