Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton arrive to speak at a press conference on Dec. 22.
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[From article]
Whatever his ambition, Bratton is biting off more than he can chew, as he proved with a wacky analysis in an interview with New York magazine.
Blaming the media for the crisis engulfing City Hall, Bratton accused this paper of “hating” Mayor Bill de Blasio and said, “If the cops are reading The Post, they’re not going to like the mayor, because it’s hanging the mayor 24 hours a day.” Then he attacked The New York Times, saying it doesn’t like de Blasio “because he’s not far enough to the left for where they want to be.”
Sob, sob — poor de Blasio, everybody’s picking on him. “This guy’s heart is in the right place,” Bratton insisted. “He likes cops. He appreciates what they do.”
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Start with the fact that The Post doesn’t hate de Blasio, only the fact that he shows more respect for Al Sharpton than for the cops who risk their lives to keep all New Yorkers safe. And that the mayor has so little regard for the families of hundreds of people who died in a plane crash that he was late to the annual moment of silence in Queens. And that he erects a tall fence around Gracie Mansion, then lies about the reason and the cost. And that he demands that landlords freeze rents while charging a whopping $5,000 a month for his vacant Brooklyn house.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/no-bill-bratton-the-post-doesnt-hate-de-blasio-we-just-love-cops/
No, Bill Bratton, The Post doesn’t hate de Blasio — we just love cops
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
December 29, 2014 | 8:18pm
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