People should be expecting a surprising number of political ads during the Super Bowl tonight. And one of them was played on today’s Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about a gun control ad he made with Thomas Menino. In the ad, Bloomberg and Menino admit they don’t agree on much (including which team to back in tonight’s game), but they do see eye-to-eye on the issue of gun safety.

In wake of the US’s largest breast cancer charity cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to make up the difference of the money lost. “Politics have no place in health care,” he said in a statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a Sunday night press conference that terror suspect 27-year-old, Jose Pimentel had been arrested Saturday after authorities uncovered he was planning on targeting targets in New York City.

In case you haven’t yet heard, the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park is no more. However, in the hours since the eviction, a disturbing side story has developed. A number of journalists have alleged that the NYPD, seemingly on orders, violently tried to keep them from covering the event. No matter what you may have felt about the protesters or the camp itself, there’s something very unsettling about the idea that the police didn’t want the nation to see what happened last night in that park.

Citing safety concerns, New York City’s police and firefighters confiscated potentially hazardous fuel cans and power generators from Zuccotti Park. “The gasoline & generators in Zuccotti Park posed a real threat of fire or explosion, particularly given the congested conditions,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office tweeted. Adding, “It’s illegal to store/use generators & fuel if it threatens public safety, so FDNY informed protestors that those items must be removed…Only goal was to keep protestors & public safe. From the start, we’ve done that in a way fully consistent w/the 1st Amendment.”

Ann Coulter is no fan of Occupy Wall Street, and she has been vocal about her opposition. On Hannity last night, she reiterated the thesis of her latest book, Demonic, in which she called left-wing mobs violent and evil by nature, noted the Occupy Wall Street rallies fit the bill perfectly, and assured America that the students protesting there are only from “bush-league schools… none of these kids are coming from places like Yale.”

It’s not really all that surprising that New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg hasn’t gotten along particularly well with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. I mean, the guy is a politician and a billionaire. He’s about as “The Man” as the man can get. Add to that a series of less than supportive comments and you don’t have the makings for much of a chummy relationship. However, when the Mayor finally took a trip down to Zuccotti Park to see the scene for himself, witnesses described him as being “cheerful.”

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg made the news late last week when, during his weekly call-in radio appearance, he opined that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are attempting to “take the jobs away from people working in this city.” The Mayor then advised those participating in the protests to channel their collective frustration towards Washington instead of towards banks and corporations if they wanted to create some real, lasting changes.

And it would appear, judging from comments he made today during a press conference held at Bronx library, that the Mayor hasn’t changed his mind.

This morning during his weekly call-in radio appearance, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest unfolding in lower Manhattan (and, increasingly, in other U.S. cities), offering his take on the demonstrations. According to New York Times reporter Kate Taylor, Bloomberg summarized the protesters’ aims thusly: Later on in the [...]

Yesterday we brought you a clip from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s appearance on Meet the Press (short story: like so many others, he’s a Chris Christie fan). However, there was another interesting moment in the program. In it, Bloomberg weighed in on the month’s big issue of contention, raising taxes on the rich, and came out strongly against the President Obama’s so-called “Buffett Rule.”

On Meet the Press today, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg weighed in on the Republican race for the presidency and whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would make a good candidate to go up against Barack Obama.

The current fiscal crisis in America has at least significantly spooked one of the nation’s most important municipal figures. During his weekly radio address, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg took a minute to warn those in power that the current jobs crisis could lead many disaffected to riots similar to those in Cairo and Madrid– a situation resulting from economic damage that “will go on for many, many years.”

On tonight’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera debated Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s decision to leave first responders and members of the clergy out of a 9/11 memorial on the World Trade Center site this Sunday. Taking a broader perspective of the national dialogue on 9/11, Geraldo referred to Ground Zero as “the most over-politicized, the most bitterly-partisan piece of real estate on earth.”

Mayor Mike Bloomberg made his first appearance on television since his state passed a law allowing same-sex couples to marry civilly, and Bloomberg was proud of his state. Bloomberg, a former Republican, told Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell that he was happy to see the law pass because it was “not contrary to the things Republicans stand for,” including “marriage stability” and personal responsibility.

Does the idea of 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin possibly running for mayor of New York City sound like a joke to the guy who’s currently got that job? Not at all. The New York Daily News reports Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday “if he wants to run, great” on the mayor’s weekly radio show. Daily News City Hall reporter Jonathan Lemire notes that Bloomberg’s met Baldwin a few times, and is aware of one issue that would have to be addressed before a campaign could begin: “He’s got time to run, but he’s got to move into the city,” said Bloomberg. “He’s not a city resident.”

The New York Post‘s Cindy Adams quotes New York mayor Michael Bloomberg explaining why nobody’s come forward to defend–or even support–Rep. Anthony Weiner. “Like Spitzer, he had no friends,” Adams quotes Bloomberg, who hosted a “Made in New York” party at Gracie Mansion. Bloomberg said Weiner should’ve “owned up right away” to his history of sexting and using social media to flirt–and more–with young women.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t among the New Yorkers backing a “no ride” list for Amtrak. “I think in a practical point of view, it would be very difficult to enforce,” he told WCBS radio’s Marla Diamond.

Bloomberg’s comments come just days after Sen. Chuck Schumer made a push to protect railroads from possible terrorist attack–an idea reportedly advanced by Osama bin Laden as a “tenth anniversary” attack on the U.S. to mark the 9/11 attacks. “Anyone, even a member of al-Qaida could purchase a train ticket and board an Amtrak train without so much as a question asked,” Schumer said.

In a marked departure from all of the wild celebrating and political bickering that followed the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama’s visit to New York today was a somber and reverent affair. He went to both a fire station and police station with Rudy Giuliani, New York’s mayor at the time of 9/11, and visited Ground Zero with Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo of New Jersey and New York respectively, New York’s current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. While there, the President laid a wreath where the Towers fell and held a moment of silence.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared on Meet the Press and unveiled a creative and somewhat strange idea about how to kill two birds with one stone. Bloomberg’s unique approach to help re-energize the economy, while also tackling the problem of illegal immigration: allow new immigrants into America so long as they agree to live in Detroit, Michigan.

Ah yes…we recall those days when everyone asked us “who needs another media site” as many will certainly ask of Mogulite. The difference, of course is that our friends at Mogulite can’t answer it, and we could! Kidding. Just like Mediaite, Mogulite will focus on personalities and in their case, the titans of industry and very powerful people who don’t always welcome attention the way our friends in media do.

So what to make of Mogulite? Well let’s let our newest cohort Amy Tennery explain its raison d’etre

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared on Fox News Sunday and host Chris Wallace tried to get his opinion on whether he was still a “big fan” of Donald Trump. Bloomberg wiggled free from answering whether he likes the idea of Trump as a presidential candidate, but did stress that he thinks the Birther strategy is a losing one.

Saturday night was the Inner Circle charity dinner, an annual roast of New York’s journalists and politicians in City Hall. During the event, Mayor Michael Bloomberg got in on the fun by performing in a full-scale musical production in which he sang Abba parodies (“Mayor Mia!”), told jokes, and dressed in costumes both disturbing and more than disturbing. The peak of the night, however, seems to have been when Bloomberg was dressed up as Spider-Man and dangled over the stage as a parody of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

From the Northeast to the Northwest, the country is cleaning up and dealing with snow today. Florida is the lone exception, as it remains snow-free. Concerns over nasty commutes and dangerous roads have people worried, and newspaper editorials this morning captured the fear, anger, and good will that Americans are experiencing in the face of the [...]

In New York City, NY1 is the city’s respected local news channel and it’s premiere show, Inside City Hall often gets national politicians as guests. Yet the “Political Rundown,” a wacky weekly segment featuring radio personality Curtis Sliwa and political commentator Gerson Borrero seems like it would be more fitting on a morning zoo radio show than a distinguished political program. Although some of the topics discussed are local to New York, the craziness can be universally enjoyed.

During an interview on Meet The Press today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg discussed American innovation and leadership. In particular, he made an interesting suggestion that we should “make sure anybody who gets a graduate degree in America, from overseas, gets a green card attached to their diploma.”

If that sentence sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve heard it already. From the New York Times‘ Thomas Friedman, in a 2007 column.