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Sarcastic Bloomberg Regrets “Everything In The World” During Hostile Blizzard Press Conference

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In case you hadn’t heard, the snow in New York is still kind of a disaster (for proof, check out any of the Twitter updates breathlessly claiming to have the DEFINITIVE picture of snow-covered Brooklyn streets or the simple fact that this post is being written from my childhood bedroom in New Jersey and not from the comfort of Mediaite Headquarters). As such, it was unsurprising that Mayor Bloomberg got a fairly icy reception during a press conference on the city’s response. Obviously a little harried, the Mayor, at one point, sarcastically responded to a question about his regrets by admitting that he did, indeed, “regret everything in the world.”

Bloomberg was clearly feeling the pressure as he asked for patience and tried to shift some of the blame to people who used their cars after being told not to only to have them be stuck and others who tied up emergency lines when not needed. In a press conference yesterday, he reminded New Yorkers that the world wasn’t ending. Today, with anger rising and one of the pictures getting most attention online featuring his own cleanly plowed street, he appeared a little less confident. He did, however, again mention that the Armageddon wasn’t upon us.

“We cannot do everything all the time and we are doing the best we can. I think that this city has pulled together. I don’t think that we should sit around and think the end of the world is here. We cannot be every place at all times but, if you look around, the people behind me are the best in this country to lead this city and to provide the services we need. We won’t get to everybody every time. We will make mistakes. But we have to continue plugging ahead. Yelling about it and complaining doesn’t help.”

What’s a guy got to do to get some patience from the people? Deliver diapers?

Check out a section from the contentious press conference from NY1 below, including the “everything in the world” comment around the 3:55 mark.

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  • timzank

    Bloomie, if you are going to train the populace to e dependent on you 24-7 for everything, you damn well better expect them whine. You and your political ilk of nannies bring this shit on yourselves.

    If you make them all helpless saps that can’t exist without your guidance, control and heavy hand what do you expect? You reap what you sow you meddling little twit.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Bloomie is a fool. His food police must be stuck in the snow.

  • Moderate

    “his own cleanly plowed street,”

    I once lived in a subdivision with a politician neighbor, the plowed streets were nice.

  • Quite the Pundint

    Real presidential material right there.

  • OxyCon

    New Yorkers deserve this assclown who plots with in-your-face Muslims behind everyone’s back.

  • Big Eddie

    No need to be short with the press , Mike .

  • Dave Richards

    timzank said:
    Bloomie, if you are going to train the populace to e dependent on you 24-7 for everything, you damn well better expect them whine. You and your political ilk of nannies bring this shit on yourselves. If you make them all helpless saps that can’t exist without your guidance, control and heavy hand what do you expect? You reap what you sow you meddling little twit.

    Couldn’t have said it better. Whining democrats always looking to the government.

  • Grammie

    Can you imagine if 9/11 had occurred on his watch?

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    Hey do any of you guys who claim to be an expert on “bloomie” (because republicans are so stupid they give everyone nicknames XD) ACTUALLY live in the city? or know what you’re talking about?

    My guess? No. lol.

  • Grammie

    Jon said:
    Hey do any of you guys who claim to be an expert on “bloomie” (because republicans are so stupid they give everyone nicknames XD) ACTUALLY live in the city? or know what you’re talking about?

    Do I understand that you only approve of New Yorkers having an opinion on this?

    So, what do you have to say about all those people with opinions about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina that didn’t live there?

  • dhg

    Uh Jon,do you live in New York and are an expert on Bloomie?

    Or are you just a liberal asshat looking for anything to whine about?

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    dhg said:
    What am I wh

    What am I whining about.. and yes I live in New York.

    To be honest, most of the comments in this thread are laughable since Bloomberg actually makes a lot of conservative decisions that piss off liberal New Yorker’s. Then again, he’s from New York right? So he’s a big city elitist or something. Makes sense in a warped mind.

  • notsofast

    Jon said:
    Makes sense in a warped mind.

    Why don’t you just open your mind and shut your mouth, both are empty anyway, you libtard?

  • skyfet

    Gash! it’s going to affect s presidential run.

  • timzank

    Jon said:
    Hey do any of you guys who claim to be an expert on “bloomie” (because republicans are so stupid they give everyone nicknames XD) ACTUALLY live in the city? or know what you’re talking about? My guess? No. lol.

    I don’t need to actually swim in a septic tank to know it smells like shit. I can tell by looking at it.

  • lazzzlo

    Lol, every time my sarcasm has hit the fan I’ve always had to explain exactly what I meant.

  • Yoda002

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Bloomie is a fool. His food police must be stuck in the snow.

    I think you’re just not happy that he doesn’t tell the world how much he adores your boyfriend Rush!

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    timzank said:
    I don’t need to actually swim in a septic tank to know it smells like shit. I can tell by looking at it.

    I wouldn’t really recommend judging a book by it’s cover, even if you think it sounds nice when you’re trying to sound like you know what you’re talking about.

    Assuming things is one of the worst things you can do.. I thought this was common knowledge.

    You guys have a morality that is seriously out of whack, I wonder if it’s reflected in your personal lives.

  • timzank

    Jon said:
    I wouldn’t really recommend judging a book by it’s cover, even if you think it sounds nice when you’re trying to sound like you know what you’re talking about. Assuming things is one of the worst things you can do.. I thought this was common knowledge. You guys have a morality that is seriously out of whack, I wonder if it’s reflected in your personal lives.

    I’m intimately familiar with New York. I just don’t live there, and certainly have no desire to live there.

  • Just4thefax

    Jon said:
    seriously out of whack

    Fact: Jon face it your probably a little fag missed out of being a boy scout, are you would have been prepared for a simple storm and all other endevours in life! Scouts honor! What a pussy!

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Jon face it your probably a little fag missed out of being a boy scout, are you would have been prepared for a simple storm and all other endevours in life! Scouts honor! What a pussy!

    Hey did you let your 7 year old use your account? He’s posting retarded shit again XD

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Blagoslovesnkiy/1231365937 Sam Blagoslovesnkiy

    “we are doing the best we can” – lol

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Jon face it your probably a little fag missed out of being a boy scout, are you would have been prepared for a simple storm and all other endevours in life! Scouts honor! What a pussy!

    LOL!!!!!!1111 Fact: You are HILARIOUS and WITTY!!!!!!!111 Who says that we Right-Thinking Americans are IGNORANT and HATEFUL?!?!??!1111 HahahaHahahahahAHahhaa suck it LIB FAGS!!!!!!111

  • ganymede

    I don’t know why I bother to answer the fools and morons who don’t know what they’re talking about. We just had a major blizzard and the snow in New York City has been cleared in record time. In previous years when we’ve had big snow it’s taken twice as long to get things moving. I live in Manhattan and know the city better than any of the idiots who are attacking Bloomberg. I’m not a big fan of his although he’s done one thing that will forever get him in the history books as an important figure. It’s his defense of the Mosque in Tribeca which will be built. Of course, you bigots and warmongers think that’s the worse thing that could ever happen. What a bunch of propagandized suckers you are.

  • Just4thefax

    Jon said:
    Hey did you let your 7 year old use your account? He’s posting retarded shit again XD

    Fact: Seven year olds man up more than you do Thanks for the excellant post! Reminds me of the last time the person behind the counter at the store asked me for my ID to buy beer. I felt so good that they thought I was so young looking that’s great! Thank you!

  • Just4thefax

    Karl Spensen said:
    LOL!!!!!!1111 Fact: You are HILARIOUS and WITTY!!!!!!!111 Who says that we Right-Thinking Americans are IGNORANT and HATEFUL?!?!??!1111 HahahaHahahahahAHahhaa suck it LIB FAGS!!!!!!111

    Fact: !!!!!!!\\\\\\/////// Thanks )))))((((((( I Know I’m Witty)))))((((((******—–_____…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    ganymede said:
    We just had a major blizzard and the snow in New York City has been cleared in record time. In previous years when we’ve had big snow it’s taken twice as long to get things moving. I live in Manhattan and know the city better than any of the idiots who are attacking Bloomberg.

    I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and I can tell you, with the certainty of empirical evidence I just got from looking out of my window, that the streets here have not been cleared. There are still abandoned vehicles and a foot and a half of snow in the street. We’ve gotten by with people in the neighborhood digging their own way out, slowly carving small lanes for traffic to get through, but this has been without the help of the city. Eastern Parkway, the only street cleared by plow in the neighborhood, is normally 3 lanes both ways but, currently, only has one lane both ways.

    As you said, you live in Manhattan and your streets have been cleared in record time. I think that’s part of the outrage. Bloomy has a notorious reputation of being Manhattan-centric. It shows in his economic policy, his education policy, his property policy, and, apparently, his disaster policy. Manhattan was promptly cleared, the other boroughs have been left to largely fend for themselves.

    So, there is some validity to the complaints.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Jon face it your probably a little fag missed out of being a boy scout, are you would have been prepared for a simple storm and all other endevours in life! Scouts honor! What a pussy!

    I wouldn’t call a storm that dumps a year’s worth of snow in one night a ‘simple storm’.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Jon face it your probably a little fag missed out of being a boy scout, are you would have been prepared for a simple storm and all other endevours in life! Scouts honor! What a pussy!

    ‘Simple storm’. LOL We had THUNDERSNOW, for Denny’s sake!

  • ganymede

    Stephen Hogan, I realize that things are not as good in Brooklyn and other outer borough areas. I use to live in Forest Hills and things took a little longer, but I do remember when John Lindsay was mayor and despite his positive demeanor and good intentions we had a mild blizzard and it took over a week for our Queens side streets to be cleared. There was serious outrage over this and it was partly responsible for his tarnished administration. All I’m saying is the flap over Bloomberg’s snow clearing problems are greatly exaggerated.

  • timzank

    ganymede said:
    I don’t know why I bother to answer the fools and morons who don’t know what they’re talking about. We just had a major blizzard and the snow in New York City has been cleared in record time. In previous years when we’ve had big snow it’s taken twice as long to get things moving. I live in Manhattan and know the city better than any of the idiots who are attacking Bloomberg. I’m not a big fan of his although he’s done one thing that will forever get him in the history books as an important figure. It’s his defense of the Mosque in Tribeca which will be built. Of course, you bigots and warmongers think that’s the worse thing that could ever happen. What a bunch of propagandized suckers you are.

    As Hogan pointed out, Manhattan was readily taken care of, you may want to look beyond just your sidewalk.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Jon said:
    Hey do any of you guys who claim to be an expert on “bloomie” (because republicans are so stupid they give everyone nicknames XD) ACTUALLY live in the city? or know what you’re talking about?

    My guess? No. lol.

    To be honest, Jon, “Bloomy” and “Bloomie” are nicknames given to Bloomberg by members of the NYC press, not Republicans.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    ganymede said:
    Stephen Hogan, I realize that things are not as good in Brooklyn and other outer borough areas. I use to live in Forest Hills and things took a little longer, but I do remember when John Lindsay was mayor and despite his positive demeanor and good intentions we had a mild blizzard and it took over a week for our Queens side streets to be cleared. There was serious outrage over this and it was partly responsible for his tarnished administration. All I’m saying is the flap over Bloomberg’s snow clearing problems are greatly exaggerated.

    I appreciate your position, but I don’t think they are exaggerated at all. There is no way that an emergency vehicle can get to my street, let alone my apartment building. That’s a serious issue. It’s not like I’m in the outskirts of the city. I live in the heart of northern Brooklyn.

  • Helix

    Here is a video of hard working, Democratic union, highly trained snow plow workers clearing NYC’s streets of snow and other obstacles..Enjoy..
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE

    Just think, these guys might be clearing your street next….. Perhaps being snowed in isn’t so bad after all.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    Stephen Hogan said:
    I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and I can tell you, with the certainty of empirical evidence I just got from looking out of my window, that the streets here have not been cleared. There are still abandoned vehicles and a foot and a half of snow in the street. We’ve gotten by with people in the neighborhood digging their own way out, slowly carving small lanes for traffic to get through, but this has been without the help of the city. Eastern Parkway, the only street cleared by plow in the neighborhood, is normally 3 lanes both ways but, currently, only has one lane both ways.

    As you said, you live in Manhattan and your streets have been cleared in record time. I think that’s part of the outrage. Bloomy has a notorious reputation of being Manhattan-centric. It shows in his economic policy, his education policy, his property policy, and, apparently, his disaster policy. Manhattan was promptly cleared, the other boroughs have been left to largely fend for themselves.

    So, there is some validity to the complaints.

    This sounds like the winter of 1969. NYC had a blizzard and streets in Queens were not plowed. People gave Mayor John V. Lindsay hell. It dogged him during the next Fall campaign. I remember being on walking tours with the Mayor during that Fall campaign. People were still angry, nearly a year later. Bloomberg is lucky he is not running again. Lindsay squeaked out a victory in 1969 in a three way race. He had to run solely on the Liberal Party line. He lost the Republican primary to John Marchi. The snow storm was a major issue in the campaign and he still received criticism for the city’s response until he left office in 1973.

  • http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Make-BP-appear-on-AC360/122998907734005 mklitt

    Google “chicago bilandic byrne snow” if you think this new conference was no big deal!

  • http://none pyrope

    I wonder if Bloomberger regrets that, due to the slow down imposed by union leadership in clearing the snow off the streets of New York City, two people died because emergency responders could not reach them?

    I wonder whether MediaLite will do a piece on this story?

  • Nahu Tuk

    I wonder if Bloomberger is taking responsibility for the following? I wonder if the union goons who staged the slow down that caused these deaths will be brought up on charges of negligent homocide? I wonder whether they’ll even be fired?

    A newborn baby died in Brooklyn on Tuesday after her mother waited nine hours for emergency personnel to respond to her call for help.

    The baby was delivered inside a building vestibule in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. The mother, a 22-year-old college student, called 911 for help but emergency personnel were unable to access her because of snow-covered streets. When personnel finally arrived, the baby was unconscious and unresponsive. The newborn was taken to a local hospital and eventually declared dead.

    “No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plowed, and no medical aid came for hours,” the newborn’s grandmother told the New York Daily News.

    Elsewhere in New York City, a Queens woman tried for 20 minutes to reach a 911 operator to request assistance for her mother. When she finally reached someone, it took personnel three hours to reach her mother. She died before anyone showed up.

    And another Brooklyn woman had to wait 30 hours for help to arrive after she called for assistance due to a broken ankle.

    By Tuesday, the backlog had gotten so bad that emergency officials requested that people only call 911 in “life-threatening” situations.

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