If You Had Only Asked, I Would Have Told You

Remember when people — some of whom you believed to be very intelligent, perhaps — liked to ask-say during the 2009 election something along the lines of “Well, who else could possibly do the job of mayor?” as if to imply that he was the only one capable of doing it? That sense of municipal entitlement was just a tease:

“I always assumed that it would come out, but it’s not my responsibility to spread a story,” Bloomberg said, before carrying on with his holiday weekend at the Hampton Classic horse show in Bridgehampton.