{"id":7234,"date":"2015-01-27T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:07:46","slug":"cnn_infobabe_kisses_de_blasio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/27\/cnn_infobabe_kisses_de_blasio\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Infobabe Kisses De Blasio!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Last night at the Department of Sanitation Manhattan 2 Garage, here is Mayor Bill de Blasio holding a press conference to talk about the city\u2019s response to the blizzard. Remember, there\u2019s no blizzard going on. At this time, to anybody watching, it\u2019s apparent that New York is not gonna get what they said it was gonna get. You could just see it out there watching. There\u2019s the mayor, and he\u2019s doing his press conference, and a reporter said, “It\u2019s unfortunate that some employers are gonna say ‘if you don\u2019t come to work tomorrow, you\u2019re fired.\u2019 What would you say to those employers?” <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s another thing. It hasn\u2019t happened. A, we\u2019ve got a forecast that\u2019s dead. We got an historic blizzard before a flake of snow has been seen, and now we have a reporter at a press conference the mayor is conducting in the middle of hardly a blizzard, and the reporter says, “You know and I know there are gonna be some people that can\u2019t get to work tomorrow, and their bosses aren\u2019t gonna shut the office and then they\u2019re gonna say ‘You\u2019re fired, because you didn\u2019t show up.'” Never mind it hasn\u2019t happened. No such thing has happened yet, no employee\u2019s been fired for not showing up at work because no historic blizzard has happened. Didn\u2019t matter. De Blasio answered the question as though it was reality.<\/p>\n

DE BLASIO: I would say to employers that this is a, uh, act of nature and they should be respectful of that and they should give some leeway to their workers. But I would say to anybody, any employee, safety first. Your life matters the most and your health and your safety matters, so the smart thing is to stay back. Any employer who\u2019s treating their employees the wrong way, we\u2019ll certainly have something to say about that. This is not a time for employers to be cheapskates.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I guess there is a time for employers to be cheapskates, but this isn\u2019t one of them. Be a cheapskate some other time, but not now, not in the middle of a blizzard. How many businesses were shut down anyway because of this forecast? But, you see, this is how this all works. There is no snowstorm, no blizzard, the mayor is in the middle of a press conference while it isn\u2019t happening, and a reporter says, “What do you say to businesses that are gonna fire employees tomorrow for not showing up to work?” It\u2019s tight out in front of you, folks. This is who these people are. <\/p>\n

This tells you what they think. This is their prejudice and bigotry toward business owners. A bunch of rotten cheapskates. We know they\u2019re gonna fire some people, and the people are not gonna get to work because they\u2019re gonna believe me and think their life is threatened, and they\u2019re gonna take my advice. They\u2019re gonna stay home. They\u2019re not gonna venture out. They want to live, and their employer\u2019s gonna fire \u2019em because they\u2019re a cheapskate. This is how they think. <\/p>\n

This morning de Blasio went over to CNN, Chris Cuomo interviewing him, Cuomo said, “Of all the criticism that you get as a mayor of a big city like this, people today are going to be saying, ‘You know, you scared me for nothing, Mr. Mayor. I could have gone to work. I could have done all these things.\u2019 What\u2019s your message to those people, Mr. Mayor?”<\/p>\n

DE BLASIO: Better safe than sorry. We had a consensus from the meteorologists across the board —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! I\u2019m sorry to yell, folks. I get exuberant. I get passionate. We got a consensus. We had a consensus from the meteorologists across the board. We had a consensus. We had a majority \u2019em telling us it was gonna be historically disastrous, just like the consensus of scientists telling us about global warming. Folks, if there\u2019s a consensus, you can be rest assured there is no science involved. Science is not up to a vote. Scientific interpretation is not up to a vote. Science is or isn\u2019t. Science is fact or no fact. It\u2019s not up to anybody\u2019s opinion no matter how much federal grant money they\u2019ve received or not. (imitating de Blasio) “No, we had a consensus of meteorologists across the board, this thing could have –” here\u2019s the rest of the bite.<\/p>\n