Posted on 07/03/2014 4:24:58 PM PDT by george76
Mayor Bill de Blasios press office announced this morning a dinner he is hosting at Gracie Mansion tonight for Muslims will be closed press, despite initially being listed as open.
The Ramadan Iftar dinner, according to de Blasio spokesman Phil Walzak, was always designed to be closed but was erroneously listed as open on the mayors schedule last night due to an internal miscommunication.
Walzak also said, "Tonight's event is closed press because it is a sit-down dinner and there also is a praying portion. Last year and the year before this event was closed press it historically has always been closed."
In 2010, an Iftar Ramadan dinner held at Gracie Mansion by de Blasios predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, was open to the press. A photograph from event taken by a DNAinfo reporter shows reporters' outstretched hands holding recorders as one guest delivers remarks.
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Ping!
Will they be serving bacon ?
another sell-out jerk political hack to be voted OUT of office

Maybe the muslims will do us all a favor.
Would de Blasio sit down with a Jewish family at a seder for Passover?
How about a Friday night fish fry with a Catholic family?
Or a Saturday afternoon horseshoe toss and cook-out with a Baptist congregation?
Didn’t think so.
Maybe they’re converting him during the event and he doesn’t want anyone to know about it yet.
It's New York.
How about a Friday night fish fry with a Catholic family?
He's a politician.
Or a Saturday afternoon horseshoe toss and cook-out with a Baptist congregation?
His family is Black.
So, "maybe" to all three.
Who the hell had ever HEARD of “Ramadan” before 9/11?!?!
The menu be serve red by waitresses dressed in Hooters outfits with burqas over it. Either that, or by child sex slaves that the Muslims would love.
His Lordship Baron deBlasio will not be mingling with the Hoi Polloi at this most important function.
Leftists became hyper-sympathetic to Muslims on 9/12
I hope he’s serving pork ribs and lots of booze.
I guess when they told him about the “sex with the goat” part he decided to make it private.
I spent 3 years in Kabul and the Muzzies make you celebrate Ramadan under penalty of death. That is how tolerant the ROP is.
Democrat party supports terrorism.
Bill de Blasio or any of his other names supports communism.
They’re atheists until they can play Muslim.
“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!”
We lost. Democrats threw that one to the enemy. Just like they did with Viet Nam.
Just like Clinton threw the Cold War to the Russians (most people haven’t figured that one out yet).
Just like Clinton deployed the US military to support the bad guys in the Balkans.
Lots of Dems were owned and operated by the ComIntern, and supported the USSR in FDR’s regime, also.
Nothing new.
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