Posted on 02/14/2020 8:58:54 AM PST by Conserv
A Michael Bloomberg adviser was cut down to size by a New York Times reporter Thursday after trying to claim the Democratic presidential candidate was not self-conscious about his height.
Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman disputed one reporter's claim that the Bloomberg campaign was secretly happy about President Donald Trump calling the former New York City mayor a "5'4″ mass of dead energy."
"The height thing is one of the few things that actually bothers the candidate," Haberman said in a tweet.
In short order, the tweet drew the ire of Bloomberg senior adviser Tim O'Brien. "The ‘height thing' actually doesn't bother Mike, Maggie," he shot back. "Size matters to Trump. But it's the size of the deficit, the size of Trump's ego, and the scale of our Constitutional crisis that do actually bother Mike."
A lifelong New Yorker who covered city politics for the New York Post and the New York Daily News during Bloomberg's mayoralty, Haberman didn't back down. "I'm going to disagree with you as someone who covered him in his 2001 campaign and for many years after, Tim," she responded. "Typically people who are not bothered don't put down the wrong height on their driver's license."
As the Washington Free Beacon has reported, there is ample evidence the billionaire misrepresented his height, listing himself as a full three inches too tall on his driver's license.
A doctor's note released by the Bloomberg campaign in December indicates the candidate is 5-foot-7. Bloomberg has given wildly contradictory answers about his height, telling reporters at various times he was 5-foot-10, "in the ballpark" of 6-foot-1, and in one unguarded moment in 2006, "a 5-foot-7 billionaire Jew."
Bloomberg was even spotted using a box to boost his height during his first mayoral inauguration. The Daily News reported at the time that the billionaire was "somewhat sensitive about his height."
Maybe that’s why he’s such a bully with tough guy security around him?
Remember when they tried to rough up Jason Mattera?
Maybe Bloomy will have a Paul Simon moment when he concedes?
The dang bleachers collapsed that he was standing on as he said he had strong support.
DJT is not a foot taller than Giuliani and Giuliani is significantly taller than mini-Mike with both a step below DJT.
He’s going to need a lot thicker skin if he’s going to go head to head with Donald Trump.
How did he get to be mayor of New York If he is that sensitive? Or is it just that New Yorkers like socialists regardless of their appearance and actions? Watching and listening to Andrew Cuomo pretty much answers that question. Andrew Cuomo acts like a person who’s been off his meds for a week or two.
People didn’t much like the front runner Dem Mark Green. Then 9/11 happened and Guiliani endorsed Bloomberg late in the game. Bloomberg at that time was running as a Republican.
He didn’t have to be sensitive about his height in NYC - he was one of many short Jews and Italians. Different when you run for president.
Bloomberg is Napoleon Dukakis!
Puerto Rican and Peruvian New Yorkers make the Jews and Italians look like basketball players
LOL.
actually it’s pretty tall.....for a hobbit
I don’t know how tall he is, but I bet we’ll never see him at a pancake fund raiser..
we already have fredo, now we have frodo
LOL
Wait a second — is Bloomberg actually running in the democratic primary on an austerity platform to cut the deficit?
AND LITTLE MIKE, ROLLED OVER TO 78 YEARS OLD...
Next Feb. 14, he will roll over to 79, if God wills that...and if he buys the Office of POTUS, he will well be on his way to 80 years old...and with age, come the disappearance of gray matter, one becomes very lazy, and needs lots of NAPS during day light hours...and the body...SHRINKS IN SIZE...we lose muscle, we turn to wrinkled old people, and flabby fat, or bony skinny...which ever...but if Mikey is ‘touchy’ about his physical size, he has a lot in store for him...it GETS WORST...
WONDERING IF SOMEONE PROVIDED HIM A CAKE, AND DID HE HAVE THE ENERGY TO BLOW OUT THE CANDLES...
Bloomy is a creepy old man, unmarried, with a live in house keeper / mistress, he has has for 20 plus years... Just guessing but, Money speaks for her too, possible!!!...
what ever, just my opinion of him...
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