Cathie Black
and many others have already apologized for her Community Board meeting gaffe in which she suggested the city solve overcrowding in schools with birth control. At this point everyone gets it was a joke, however tasteless, but Bloomberg has decided to shoehorn his opinion in and most likely make it worse. After speaking at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, he told reporters, "Cathie Black made a joke. Some people took it the wrong way. She apologized...I picked the right person. She'll try to fulfill the dream that Martin Luther King had for everybody." Which had something to do with "Sophie's Choice," right?
Bloomberg said Black's joke was a classic rookie mistake, one he himself made in that far off time of three terms ago: "I think she'll learn slowly with time, as did I, that you can do some things in the private sector you can't do in the public sector and the public sector people parse what you say and take in different ways than they would in the private sector. I made plenty of mistakes when I went from the private sector to the public sector." And they just keep coming!
