Mr. Mayor, Have You No Shame?

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 08-25-10 | JAMES TARANTO

[GOP_Lady]

Why Michael Bloomberg is imitating Joe McCarthy.

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has an op-ed in today's New York Post defending the Ground Zero mosque. Actually, the Post informs us, it's an adaptation of "Bloomberg's prepared remarks for his annual Ramadan celebration at Gracie Mansion yesterday."

It is a low performance. Bloomberg panders to his audience by slandering the two-thirds or so of Americans who take offense at the idea of a fancy new mosque near the site of an Islamic supremacist atrocity:

Islam did not attack the World Trade Center--al Qaeda did. To implicate all of Islam for the actions of a few who twisted a great religion is unfair and un-American.

The substance of this statement is unremarkable: Obviously it is wrong to implicate all of Islam in the 9/11 attacks.

But the mayor employs scurrilous McCarthyite rhetoric in an attempt to inflame emotions and divert attention from a point that should be equally obvious: The Ground Zero mosque planners have implicated themselves by seeking to exploit the symbolism of the site, whatever their purpose is in doing so.

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[WayneH]

I guess he can give up hope for a presidential run in 2012!

[RichInOC]

“Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick.”

[sushiman]

Follow the money trail ...

[skeeter]

Bloomberg is the archtypical RINO.

We have GOT to get rid of his type.

[GOP_Lady]

Yep. HE is the type of politician that we need to focus on.

[GOP_Lady]

Tisk! Tisk!

Oh, well ...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

[dforest]

He is no longer in the GOP. He is a so called Independent.

[Blue Jays]

It is unreal that Mayor Bloomberg can't be drummed out of the Republican party.
He is the poster child of annoying RINO politicians ruining this country.

[GOP_Lady]

[WellyP]

Bloomberg is protecting his SHARIA COMPLIENT finance game.

Mayor Bloomberg’s Vested Financial Interests in Muslim Countries
18 Aug 2010 ... Bloomberg spent 100 million to become mayor. ... mayor michale bloomberg · bloomberg vested financial interests · sharia compliant · somalis ...
hubpages.com/.../Mayor-Bloombergs-Vested-Financial-Interests-in-Muslim-Countires - Cached

[Nachum]

It’s been another long day in RINO-ville

It’s a shame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7T1v3DxgKg

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Rudy could of been NYC Mayor today, if Rudy succeeded in getting rid of term limits. We wouldn’t be going through this “mess” with Bloomberg, if Rudy was, still, NYC Mayor.

[cricket]

Never met a Liberal who knew 'shame' - or experienced even a tweaking of what others know as 'conscience'. . .

Incredible ignorance; and wish they could begin a recall or 'something' to send this excuse for NYC Leadership, into retirement.

[cranked]

Better bet if he does do so, I, personally, will make it my mission in life to keep reminding him of that “un-American” comment..... bet. =.=

[GOP_Lady]

I’m groovin’!

[sushiman]

Michael Savage covered this today on his show . Worth a listen for sure . Should be up shortly here :

http://www.mediafly.com/Podcasts/Feeds/e9ab2619e47c4a3d92ecf20533293b3d#The_Michael_Savage_Show_01262010_FULL

[GOP_Lady]

Rush on Bloomy:

"Somebody needs to tell Mayor Bloomberg that Faisal Shahzad, the bomber, is heavy user of salt and a big-time smoker.  That will light Bloomberg's fire!" "They get no leadership from Washington.  They get no leadership from Obama.  What did we get?  We get press statements. We get self-serving talking points leaked to friendly media.  "Oh, yeah, we were on this from day one, we're on the case, we know exactly what we're doing here, why, this is a one-off.  We have total competence here, know exactly what we're doing."  What we have here is weakness in leadership all across the country.  New York, Bloomberg is no Giuliani.  Bloomberg has made a literal, ahhh, of himself.  It is absolutely breathtaking. It's beyond comprehension. (imitating Bloomberg)  "Oh, yeah, Katie, no question this guy is a tea partier, white guy, probably ticked off, mid-forties, probably ticked off at the health care bill."  He didn't even have the sense to blame it on Arizona's immigration law.  Then after it's discovered who this guy really is,  "I'm not going to tolerate any backlash against Muslims or Middle Easterners in New York."  I know Giuliani and Bloomberg get along, but sorry, Bloomberg is no Giuliani."

[kanawa]

Ground Zero Mosque Madness: NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Bloomberg LLC expanding its financial center to a regional hub in Dubai

Bloomberg makes Dubai a hub (2008)...

Max Linnington, the company’s newly appointed regional head of Middle East and South Asia,...

“Particularly since the meltdown of the western capitalist system, there has been an increasingly large focus on the virtues of Islamic finance,” he said. “Today, there is no one single provider of information that caters to the Islamic finance market. So by Bloomberg being here, we are in the process of building out an Islamic finance product. We are very confident that we can build a product that meets the needs of the market right now.”

Despite the fact that its client base of financial professionals has been among those hardest hit by the economic crisis, Mr Linnington said the company’s business “is up fairly significantly in today’s environment”.