NYP: "De Blasio doth protest too much — and blows his cover"

Good column by Michael Goodwin in the NY Post.

The real problem, as de Blasio sees it, is the media. I kid you not — he actually shot the messenger. He accused the reporters assembled in front of him of stoking outrage by focusing on “the few” protesters doing “immoral” things. “They are wrong,” he said, his voice rising. “But are you going to keep dividing us? What you manage to do is pull up the few who do not represent the majority.”

He went on in that vein for several minutes, becoming more forceful and shutting down a persistent reporter by addressing him as “my friend,” a phrase he paired with a death stare.

Rather than convince, the tirade revealed. Like looking at an X-ray, we saw the real de Blasio. It wasn’t a pretty sight.

His heart remains with the protesters, and in spirit, he is still with them, denouncing the very police force that works for him. His passion for the anti-cop agenda is so deep that he wasn’t capable of following his own advice to take a break from divisiveness for even a single day.

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As a councilman or public advocate, he could be the radical pol who marched for the cameras, got arrested and made wild charges against “the man.”

Nobody cared or noticed.

Better yet, he could have skipped government and become a go-fer for Al Sharpton, maybe rising to deputy organizer.

It’s easy to imagine him wielding a bullhorn and a clipboard and leading chants of “No justice, no peace.”

Unfortunately, de Blasio opted for another path, thinking that as “the man,” he would be in a position to remake New York.

He could stir marginalized blacks, anarchists and rootless young people by invoking Jim Crow segregation and accusing NYPD bosses of being modern-day Bull Connors.

None of it is true, but facts don’t matter to him.

He’s a believer. Like most radicals with no real-world experience, he assumes the way to fix things is to first smash them into pieces. That’s what he’s doing to New York.