It Wouldn’t Be The First Time Someone Being Offered A Job Was Lied To . . .

Then again, perhaps this is some Jedi PR mind shit to make us more sympathetic toward Cathie Black. If so, it’s working:

The New York Times reported on Friday that Mr. Bloomberg had originally tried but failed to persuade Geoffrey Canada, the Harlem education leader, to take the job.

Ms. Black suggested the report did not jibe with what Mr. Bloomberg had told her in October, when he invited Ms. Black to the offices of his foundation to offer her the chancellor’s position.

“What he said to me is, ‘You’re the first person I’ve offered this job to,'” Ms. Black said on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York.”

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In the interview on Friday, Ms. Black said she was unsure whether Mr. Bloomberg knew that she lacked graduate degrees when he offered her the position. “I don’t know that for a fact,” Ms. Black said. “I assume he had done his homework — as he should have.”