Bill de Blasio Faces the Fury of New Yorkers

New Yorker: “The record for the most notorious radio appearance made by a New York City mayor has long been held by Rudy Giuliani, who, on his weekly WABC call-in show, berated a ferret-loving constituent for showing an ‘excessive concern with little weasels’ and advised him to seek psychiatric help. The baton has now been passed. On Friday morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio called in to the weekly Ask the Mayor segment on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show…”

“What followed was a thirty-minute performance of defensiveness, denial, and bizarre false equivalence.”