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 ...
Good golly, he's pro-life!
That’s a potentially fatal wound for Bloomberg. What will the super delegates do now? Bernie smiles.
OTOH it may be battlespace preparation -- DJT would far rather run against Bernie than Bloomie.
Knock Bloomie out early and watch the RATS eat each other up.
Video of this has to exist, and I bet that Bloomberg does not have enough money to burry it so deep that DJT's money can't dig it up. Clash of the titans.
“We basically honor the wishes of our speakers”
Bull$hit. If it were about Trump, they’d be selling and syndicating the video and raking in the bucks.
If a Republican Presidential Candidate made the same comments at the Aspen Institute, they would be Viral by now.
“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 long-term focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”
Smart enough to know that, stupid enough to say it.
Plenty sites allow posters to spout opinions you may not like
Breitbart sure doesn’t purge all bigotry and it’s run by Jews for the most part since Bannon left
The point of banning sites should be about whether it’s the policy of the website not the comments
Btw....zerohedge isn’t allowed here
Feel better now
“the media will NEVER play it”
If Bloomberg ever presents an actual threat, some PAC will put that audio in ads, you can count on it.
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