June 15, 2007
Speculation In Full Bloom
In the last 72 hours, Mike Bloomberg has been on the cover of TIME, the subject of the feature story in Business Week and a special guest on NBC's "Nightly News."
The three media outlets described the NYC mayor as "forthright," "prosaic," "self-confident," "tough," an "Eagle Scout," "an executive," "a CEO," "a cutthroat businessman," "a press mogul," "a Wall Street mogul," a "technocrat," someone who "isn't typical," "a risk-taker," "self-made," "a billionaire," "a self-made billionaire" a "pint-size billionaire" and, of course someone with "no political debts" who is "beholden to no one."
Sounds like the media has found a new sweetheart. Interviewing Bloomberg, Brian Williams even swooned, "Oh, you must have an opinion on whether or not you'd make a good president."
Our question: Couldn’t Bloomberg, forthright Eagle Scout and cutthroat mogul that he apparently is, cool down the courtship if he wasn’t just as interested? [PATRICK OTTENHOFF]
Posted at 08:54 AM
Comments
Why should Bloomberg cool down the speculation? Don't you like having your ego stroked? Why do you think Gore has not stopped the speculation? It's because you guys will keep talking about him till the end of the summer at least. For better or worse, politicians love attention.
Ghost of Tom Joad | 06.15.07 10:51 AM
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Sure? But he doesn't want to, because even if he isn't going to run, he thinks the prospect/threat of his running is useful for shaping the landscape? Still, apparently we're going to ignore his message just as much as we ignore Gore's, even though they both basically say out loud they wouldn't win.
gabbneb | 06.17.07 05:24 PM
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