Michael Bloomberg reignites online war
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Michael Bloomberg reignites online war
By: Tim Mak November 2, 2011 09:59 AM EDT
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg re-ignited bitter blogosphere feuds with his comment that the “Occupy” movement should blame Congress, not Wall Street, for the nation’s economic woes.
“It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis. It was, plain and simple, Congress,” Bloomberg said.
Conservatives were more than happy to add an “amen” to Bloomberg’s remarks,which reopened old arguments among bloggers about the root cause of the 2008 financial meltdown.
“Nice to see you join the Occupy Truth movement, Mr. Mayor. A lot of us have been saying that same thing for years,” said a blogger on the conservative SisterToldjah, adding that it was a “refreshing, rare burst of truth” from the billionaire mayor.
But progressive commentators on the web lost it, hurling a combination of insults and derision at Bloomberg.
The mayor is an “ignoramus…who just swallows right-wing propaganda whole,” wrote economist and New York Time columnist Paul Krugman on his blog. “Some centrist hero.”
“The fact is that for any public figure to go with the Congress-did-it argument at this stage is for him to reveal both that he is grossly ignorant about the central policy issue of the day and that he gets his ‘analysis’ from right-wing flacks,” added Krugman.
“The supposedly liberal New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg should know better than to peddle that crap,” added Joan McCarter at the liberal Daily Kos. “It’ll make Bloomberg’s 1 percent buddies happy to hear him stick up for them, but it’s still a lie.”
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