{"id":3078,"date":"2008-01-22T06:38:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/presidential_good_cop-bad_cop.html"},"modified":"2008-01-22T06:38:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:38:39","slug":"presidential_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/presidential_go.html","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Good Cop-Bad Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/22giuliani.html?ex=1358744400&#038;en=650c5e5949eb3476&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">predecessors like these<\/a> of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/69917\">Al Sharpton will see you as a friend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Reverend Al Sharpton, who has not endorsed a candidate for president, is heaping praise on Mayor Bloomberg and, in turn, criticizing the legacy of Mayor Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bloomberg changed the &#8220;tone of ugliness&#8221; in the city, Rev. Sharpton said, so that even when there is disagreement, those on conflicting sides still speak to each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that even when we disagree that we not have a climate of disagreeability,&#8221; Rev. Sharpton said yesterday at an annual rally held in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the headquarters of Rev. Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael Bloomberg has torn down the curtain of polarized dialogue in the city and he has done it in an effective way,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With predecessors like these of course Al Sharpton will see you as a friend: The Reverend Al Sharpton, who has not endorsed a candidate for president, is heaping praise on Mayor Bloomberg and, in turn, criticizing the legacy of Mayor Giuliani. Mr. Bloomberg changed the &#8220;tone of ugliness&#8221; in the city, Rev. Sharpton said, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","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=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}