His Pauline Kael, Out-of-Touch, Moment - Nanny Bloomberg: 'Most people I know don't even have a gun'

Kael has often been quoted as having said, in the wake of Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election that she "couldn't believe Nixon had won", since no one she knew had voted for him.

The Perils of
Pauline Bloomberg

Manhattan is an island that is too superciliously insular in its politics and New York has more than its share of supercilious mayors and governors. 
Most people Bloomberg and Cuomo know have armed protection, especially when they are around. m/r

Bloomberg: 'Most people I know don't even have a gun' | The Daily Caller
Caroline May 1-18-13

WASHINGTON — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed pro-gun advocates while encouraging America’s other mayors to pressure Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s gun-control proposals, during a lunch gathering of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday.

“Most people I know don’t even have a gun,” Bloomberg said, claiming America is “the only industrialized country in the world” that has a gun “problem” where there are more guns than people.

Bloomberg spoke highly of the proposals Obama laid out Wednesday and called the current enforcement of gun laws a “tragic joke.” [His pot and kettle moment.]

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/18/bloomberg-most-people-i-know-dont-even-have-a-gun/#ixzz2IX0v3Zsb