Respect and admiration?
He said his son was in danger from the coos and backed Al Sharpton during the “we want dead cops” march.
He’s welcome to his opinion about his son. It might even have some truth to it, in that modern “diversity” culture has made itself into something more rotten than it was before. And it ends up tarring everybody with the same brush.
As for the other, the devil is in the details. Did de Blasio agree with the message (which would be horribly, horribly wrong) or with the mood (which is what sympathetic liberals do)?
To see this issue juxtaposed with his lamentations about his son seems to suggest false representation to me. Someone said that the remarks about his son coaxed on the attack. I fail to see how. They sound like standard liberal oversensitivity to me.
And there are adult ways to deal with this. Descending to the mayor’s childishness makes everyone childish.
I’m probably also going to get the childish antics aimed at me.