… this is excellent writing.
Yes, there’s one mistake.
After getting caught on tape repeatedly using the heliport on the weekends — when it’s supposed to be closed because of noise pollution — a reporter for ABC 7 confronted the mayor, who explained…
This makes it look as though the reporter got caught, not the mayor.
But otherwise this piece is terrific satire, snark, irony, sarcasm, whatever.
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And you can relax. Ira Rennert, who used to be one of Yeshiva University’s fabled trustees (that great religious institution also had Bernard Madoff and Ezra Merkin running the place), will continue to break the rules and use the heliport on the weekends. “Being an entitled plutocrat just isn’t what it used to be,” complains the Gothamist writer. But it is. Rennert’s holding down the fort.
May 24th, 2012 at 10:01AM
I do believe Ungrateful Lickspittles will be the name of my next band.
May 24th, 2012 at 10:11AM
Julia: LOL.
May 25th, 2012 at 8:44AM
OT: you’ve written a few times about the ridiculous expansion of the diagnosis criteria for mental illness….this one, though, is pretty funny:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/interest-in-lindsay-lohan-classified-as-mental-illness-2012052428430
May 25th, 2012 at 9:01AM
Thank you, David! Goes beautifully with something I just posted. I’ll link to it.