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Good! Hope he goes out of business. I wonder why he didn’t mention Mussolini? Maybe he’s related to him.
Batali is a punk. He’s grown with success in a capitalist enviroment and he trashes the system. Go to Europe shmuck.
Fat sweathog commie chef.
I never liked that guy but I couldn’t quite pin it down.
Well a few light bulbs just went on!
Good luck selling $150 prix-fixe entrees to “the 99%”, gneius.
Unlike Wall Street inhabitants, neither Hitler nor Stalin would pay the exorbitant prices for Mario Batali’s dishes. This ingrate is about to learn who has been buttering his bread.
Idiot should SHUT UP and COOK...
He can always load that overpriced crap on a cart and hawk it to the geniuses occupying the park!!!
I agree with him to some extent. If you want to talk about people like Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon, yes, they gamed the system badly. They got in bed with government, and their firms receive the newly minted, inflation-free money from the Federal Reserve. Goldman gets to issue government bonds and derives huge profits by indebting this nation. Of course the Democrats politically own these banks Super Mario decries, but I doubt he knows that.
Mario Batali has quite a reputation. He is an extreme liberal from a family of means. He despised George W. with a passion (and with expletives). He also tends to shoot off his mouth and made quite an ass of himself (do a search for "king juan carlos mario batali"). I've heard some really nasty allegations of his behavior towards the women from an attendant when he was at the at the affair with King Juan Carlos, but I won't repeat those as they are hearsay. I still find him to be likable for certain reasons. I hate to be Polyanna, but he's not all bad.
threatened to cancel??
Boycott them like the Men’s Warehouse. How many suits and $145 dinners do you suppose the OWS will be buying?
I can get better food at my local Greek and Italian restaurants.
Don’t need to give a greedy pig my money.
Just flip the burgers, cookie. I’d call the Health Department on him.
If I recall correctly, Batali had his staff wearing anti-”W” buttons during either the 2000 or 2004 campaigns.
I wonder if these remarks will get him booted from “The Chew” TV show?
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Mario Batali Apologizes for Comments Comparing Bankers to Hitler, Stalin
A few Web sites quoted Mr. Batali, and soon the restaurant world was buzzing. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Batali’s spokeswoman e-mailed an apology. “It was never my intention to equate our banking industry with Hitler and Stalin, two of the most evil, brutal dictators in modern history,” Mr. Batali said in the statement. Mr. Batali did not respond to a request for an interview.
Some financial executives who typed out comments on their Bloomberg terminals sounded as if they believed Mr. Batali had attacked them personally — and they made it clear they would never slide into any of his banquettes again. But they would not talk about it except on their terminals or on Web sites or on Twitter because their companies have policies barring them from speaking to reporters.
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Maybe the "Obamaville Hippies" will drop by for dinner, not paying of course.
$145 a person for lunch. Maybe they should be learning to economize regardless of who the chef is. That is no "business expense" at that rate anymore than a $200 blowjob is.
