Mike Bloomberg is Dangerously Serious
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 6:41 am
The good, the bad, the ugly, etc.
I'll start with this from today:
Campaign says their web software didn't support footnotes.
As I said elsewhere, Bloomberg appears to be doing commendable work reducing carbon emissions. And the news service he founded, I find to be one of the most 'balanced' among the big corporate media outlets, with relatively rational, even-handed presentations.
But president? No. Bloomberg's a deficit hawk, an indefensible BLOT on any candidate, imo. Says "socialism" is evil. Wants big business to trickle down on us. Federally funded universal healthcare? Forget it.
Edit: Bloomberg does seem to know the climate science, does seem to know what needs to be done to reduce carbon emissions.and so on. But he'll get hung up on "how to pay for it."
I'll start with this from today:
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/mik ... arization/
Bloomberg Plagiarized Parts of At Least Eight of His Plans
Akela Lacy
February 6 2020, 2:53 p.m.
Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups.
The Intercept found that exact passages from at least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building America’s Future Educational Fund, and other organizations. Bloomberg co-founded Everytown for Gun Safety, a political organization focused on gun control, and Building America’s Future Educational Fund, a nonprofit working on infrastructure investment and reform, and has chaired them in the past, and he was listed as a co-author on the educational fund’s reports. He is not clearly affiliated with the other sources. The plagiarized sections ranged in length from entire paragraphs to individual sentences and fragments in documents that were between five and 14 pages long.
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Campaign says their web software didn't support footnotes.
As I said elsewhere, Bloomberg appears to be doing commendable work reducing carbon emissions. And the news service he founded, I find to be one of the most 'balanced' among the big corporate media outlets, with relatively rational, even-handed presentations.
But president? No. Bloomberg's a deficit hawk, an indefensible BLOT on any candidate, imo. Says "socialism" is evil. Wants big business to trickle down on us. Federally funded universal healthcare? Forget it.
Edit: Bloomberg does seem to know the climate science, does seem to know what needs to be done to reduce carbon emissions.and so on. But he'll get hung up on "how to pay for it."