The Austin Chronicle: News: The Hightower Report

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HOME: OCTOBER 8, 2004: NEWS: THE HIGHTOWER REPORT
The Hightower Report
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
NEW YORK'S GOOBERHEAD MAYOR

Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues going 100 miles an hour ... but who forgot to put their brains in gear.

Today's Goober is Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of the Big Apple. Hizzoner was in the national spotlight during August's Republican National Convention in New York City – and the glare revealed some very ugly wrinkles inside his soul. Bloomberg showed himself to be stunningly callous to our country's most fundamental liberty – the right to assemble in public and speak out about any and all policies with which we disagree. He used the New York police as a bludgeon to crack down on dissenters who were engaged in totally lawful protests; then, he asserted that "every NYPD officer did a great job."