Well, I certainly wasn't expecting to read anything enlightening beyond the usual hippy-bashing in the NY Post when they posted their "why Bloomy dunnit" article today.
And, there was a little of that ("scabies, lice, ewwww!") but mostly it's incredibly unflattering to Mayor 1%.
And, while he made sure to keep his actions within the letter of the law, the motivation was well below that which we would expect from a public servant.
Being the Murdoch Post, they start with the dirty hippy angle
Mayor Bloomberg finally decided to wipe Zuccotti Park clean after learning about a rancid outbreak of scabies, lice and lung ailments among protesters
BUT
and most importantly because his reputation was taking a beating, insiders told The Post.
Intrigued?
Hizzoner hit his breaking point after he was contrasted to the liberal mayors of Oakland and Denver — who quickly cracked down on OWS protesters — and critics compared his inaction to the failings of former Mayor David Dinkins.
And it was about to get worse.
Bloomberg would have looked even weaker if he didn’t thwart an OWS threat to storm the New York Stock Exchange, a massive action that was planned for tomorrow, multiple sources said.
“His Wall Street friends wouldn’t stand for it,” one source said.
Just in case you thought that was the world's weakest rationalization for police action . . .
And Hizzoner didn’t like being called out by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his inactivity.
A couple of weeks ago, Giuliani said that he would never have tolerated people sleeping in the park and that the city should kick the protesters out.
Just like on 9/11 . . . er, why are we paying attention to Rudey?
Of course, being the post, they had to throw in some good old-fashioned Negro-baiting.
Bloomberg also was being compared to Dinkins for the ex-mayor’s botched handling of the Crown Heights riots in 1991 — when a black child was accidentally killed by the driver of a local Hasidic leader, and an innocent Orthodox Jewish student was subsequently stabbed to death.
“People were starting to compare [the Occupy Wall Street protests] to Crown Heights and David Dinkins,” a source said.
No love for Mike outside of Wall Street. Not even in Murdoch-land.