Desperate for a scapegoat, de Blasio blames the media for the bad press he’s getting.
From Fox News.
……His popularity has plummeted. He’s on the defensive in the national furor over the murder of two Brooklyn police officers. He’s lost the support of the police force. And he thinks the best strategy is to whack the press?
Even as he was trying to deliver a message of unity on Monday, de Blasio couldn’t resist blaming the messenger—this in a tabloid town that can make life miserable for any mayor.
Asked about protestors that chant such things as “NYPD…KKK,” de Blasio said: “What are you guys gonna do? Are you gonna keep dividing us?”
Two police officers are dead, some critics are unfairly accusing the mayor of having blood on his hands, and he stands there facing a bunch of reporters and says it’s their fault?
“What you managed to do is pull up the few who do not represent the majority, who are saying unacceptable things, who shouldn’t be saying those things,” de Blasio complained.
As a matter of strategy, this was dumb. De Blasio stepped on his own message, which was trying to mend fences with the cops and appeal for unity. Instead, he picked a fight with the press, which knows how to punch back.
Thus, Michael Goodwin in the New York Post: “The mask of conciliation came off. Actually, he ripped it off with a snarl and gave vent to his smoldering anger at what he regards as the real culprit.
“No, it’s not the protesters who beat and spit on cops and accuse them of being the KKK. It definitely isn’t the mobs chanting for dead cops. Nor is it those who shut down highways, bridges and invade stores to disrupt the holiday season.
The real problem, as de Blasio sees it, is the media.”
Let me get this straight. De Blasio, who is a leftwing fringe lunatic to begin with, embraced the protesters in spite of their violence and calls for deaths. Obama, Holder, and Sharpton threw gasoline on the fire in Ferguson with their race-hustling. But it’s all the media’s fault. The same media which kept insisting that the violent racist protesters were peaceful. So, in that respect the media shares culpability.
The race hustlers got what they wanted. The citizens of New York city are stuck with this moonbat for the next two years. Congratulations.
Related articles:
http://nypost.com/2014/12/19/de-blasio-meets-with-protest-leaders/
Reminds me of an old story from school: a student complained to his teacher, saying “Why did you give me this failing mark?” The teacher replied “I didn’t give you anything; I merely recorded YOUR performance.”
It would be laughable if it weren’t so deadly.