Why Doesn't The Press Call Bloomberg On This Kind Of Stuff?

John Gambling fellates Michael Bloomberg one hour every week on WOR, letting our little mayor pontificate about all kinds of wonderful things like raising public school class sizes to standing room only without every pushing back on him and saying, "Hey, you're nuts!  You don't know what you're talking about!"

Yesterday's radio program was a case in point:

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday put his foot in his mouth by suggesting homeless shelters are bursting at the seams because anyone can get a bed — even the filthy rich.

“You can arrive in your private jet at Kennedy Airport, take a private limousine and go straight to the shelter system, walk in the door, and we’ve got to give you shelter,” the billionaire mayor fumed on his weekly WOR radio show.

“That’s what the law is. I didn’t write the law.”

He was referring to a decree signed by Mayor Ed Koch 30 years ago that gives free shelter to anyone who says they need it.

Bloomberg’s comments came the week that an advocacy group for the homeless released a report saying the city’s homeless population surged in the past year.

“It’s pretty ludicrous to claim that there are people flying in private jets and taking private limos to the shelter system,” said Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless.

“He didn’t seem to want to take responsibility for the fact that there are more than 50,000 people sleeping in city shelters, including 21,000 children.”

City Comptroller John Liu piled on.

“Only an out-of-touch mayor who travels by private jet and limo would make such a tone-deaf wisecrack about a homeless crisis that has only worsened under his careless watch,” said Liu, a likely mayoral candidate.

Kudos to liu for calling Bloomberg out.

Now if only Gambling could have said to his face, "Hey Mikey, you're an arrogant, crazy know-nothing and I can't wait for the next mayor to come into office so I don't have to listen to your crazy-ass crap and make believe in makes sense.