Grandstanding (Or, What Not to Say to a Bunch of Angry Ironworkers)

Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner convened a press conference to outline his ideas for the city’s future only to be met by a counterprotest from a group of ironworkers looking for work, in a manner of speaking:

Ironworkers crashed a news conference of mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner held on the steps of City Hall yesterday, taunting the congressman over his opposition to the planned West Side stadium.

“Tony, Tony!” they shouted over and over. “Stadium yes, Weiner no!”

Weiner scheduled the event to issue a booklet spelling out his campaign of “ideas.” But most of the press questions focused on his opposition to the Bloomberg-backed Manhattan stadium plan.

Weiner wants the stadium to be built in Queens, near Shea Stadium.

Short of having my personal life exposed for all to see by the Post, the second worst thing I can imagine is to be bumrushed by a bunch of pissed off union guys. I live in fear that inflatable rat:

Still, it wouldn’t occur to me in a million years to try to drown them out with an alternative chant, as apparently happened with Representative Weiner:

After his news conference, Weiner tried to speak to the demonstrators, who repeatedly drowned him out with chants of “Build it now!”

He answered with chants of “Jets in Queens, Jets in Queens!” before giving up.

“Jets in Queens.” Hmm, has a ring to it. Not! Dude, they tried that already!