Third-Term Malaise Alert: The Thin Line Between Faux Folksiness And Lousy Grammar

It’s not so much a “you have to” scenario but rather a “you got to” sort of thing — kind of like when Kenny Rogers sings “you got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em” in “The Gambler,” or when The Beatles sang “got to be a joker he just do what he please” in “Come Together” or even when Randy Newman snarked that when it comes to short people, “you got to pick ’em up just to say hello”:

At his news conference Wednesday, the mayor appeared to have no patience for any employee who somehow missed his unannounced media appearances. “You got to listen,” he demanded.

Earlier: “At Least They Didn’t Call Them ‘Non-Essential'”.