Bloomberg campaign acknowledges past 'disrespectful and wrong' comments about women

[brooklynite]

The Hill

Representatives for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg conceded ahead of a reported presidential run that the ex-mayor has made“disrespectful and wrong” comments about women, according to the New York Times.

A 1990 booklet of quotations attributed to Bloomberg included “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and a suggestion that a computer would perform oral sex on the user, which would “put … a lot of you girls out of business,” according to the Times.

Bloomberg said the comments were merely “Borscht belt jokes” when they came up during his 2001 mayoral run. But more recently, in 2012, the then-mayor told two guests at a party to “look at the ass” on a female guest and last year said “I don’t know how true all of it is” of the sexual harassment allegations that led to the firing of CBS’s Charlie Rose.

“Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong,” former City Hall press secretary Stu Loeser, now an advisor to Bloomberg, told the Times on Wednesday.

[tblue37]

1. No, he hasn't changed his tune. He just doesn't want to be held responsible for singing it. nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Ok billionaire

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Nothing says "I'm sorry" like a generic message delivered by a PR man.

[redqueen]

8. LOL

👍

[pfeiffer]

4. Great!!

And yet ANOTHER white misogynistic billionaire dick running for president.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Lol. Ok, Michael (Michael's PR people really).

[Doreen]

6. Well, I knew I did not trust

him as a candidate from the start. Now I see my intuition was correct.

[mr_lebowski]

7. Damn I knew my computer was out-of-date, but ... I had no idea ... (nt)

[defacto7]

9. Is he asking for absolution? Try a priest.

Actions stay in public memory, they're not just baptized away by payed campaign consultants.