{"id":5530,"date":"2009-10-24T22:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2009-10-25T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T16:34:07","slug":"at_crunch_time_everyone_suddenly_feels_embarrassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/at_crunch_time_everyone_suddenly_feels_embarrassed.html","title":{"rendered":"At Crunch Time, Everyone Suddenly Feels Embarrassed*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More do-it-yourself editorial board. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/24\/opinion\/24sat1.html\">The Times bemoans Bloomberg&#8217;s obscene spending<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York City&#8217;s campaign finance system is one of the best in the country. He does everyone a disservice by not complying with the system&#8217;s limits on spending.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere on the opinion page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/24\/opinion\/24herbert.html\">Bob Herbert calls the mayor&#8217;s race baiting a sign of vulnerability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>That the mayor is now willing to lock his principles in a safe deposit box and start riding the broomstick of ethnic politics suggests that he&#8217;s worried about the outcome of his race against Mr. Thompson . . .<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Everyone except <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/15\/citys-largest-spanish-newspaper-backs-thompson\/\">El Diario<\/a>, that is.  And the Amsterdam News. Good for them. Also, do you wonder why the Times chose to run this endorsement on Saturday?<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/bloombergformayor2009\/index.htm\">Bloomberg For Mayor 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More do-it-yourself editorial board. The Times bemoans Bloomberg&#8217;s obscene spending: New York City&#8217;s campaign finance system is one of the best in the country. He does everyone a disservice by not complying with the system&#8217;s limits on spending. Elsewhere on the opinion page, Bob Herbert calls the mayor&#8217;s race baiting a sign of vulnerability: That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}