{"id":2334,"date":"2007-05-18T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/part_charlie_rose_part_frederick_frankenstein.html"},"modified":"2007-05-18T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T17:48:04","slug":"part_charlie_ro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/part_charlie_ro.html","title":{"rendered":"Part Charlie Rose, Part Frederick Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Green — the man directly responsible for Mayor Bloomberg — confronts his creation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It was a meeting that felt more like a Catskill comedy routine than a reunion of two formerly bitter political rivals:<\/p>\n

When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visited the studios of Air America Radio yesterday for an interview at the hands of Mark Green, the two men made a show of how deeply they had buried the hatchet since their bruising contest for mayor in 2001.<\/p>\n

“Who would have thought that you’re here as the media guy and I’m here as the politician,” Mr. Bloomberg said to Mr. Green, a perennial candidate who swore off politics after losing the race for state attorney general to Andrew M. Cuomo last year.<\/p>\n

“You took the words out of my mouth,” Mr. Green said. “If you had asked me six years ago whether I’d be interviewing you as a co-owner and president of Air America Radio and you as the mayor . . .”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The encounter between Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Green, one of their most extended since Mr. Green’s 2001 defeat, made for an odd bit of political theater. Mr. Green, a Democrat, largely expressed support for what Mr. Bloomberg has done with the office they once fought over.<\/p>\n

But it also gave Mr. Bloomberg, a nominal Republican, the opportunity to send his messages about stemming illegal gun trafficking and improving the environment to a potentially receptive national audience.<\/p>\n

And to trade cheesy puns. At one point, Mr. Green segued into a discussion of Mr. Bloomberg’s environmental development plan, saying it was an effort to create “a cleaner city, as he calls it a greener city — a phrase I’m not going to object to at this time.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Bloomberg interjected: “I’ve always wanted to make this a green city, Mark. Just not back in ’01.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Green — the man directly responsible for Mayor Bloomberg — confronts his creation: It was a meeting that felt more like a Catskill comedy routine than a reunion of two formerly bitter political rivals: When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visited the studios of Air America Radio yesterday for an interview at the hands of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}