Mayor Bloomberg Booed At Annual St. Patrick’s Parade In Storm-Ravaged Rockaways

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20. bloomberg & murdoch are buds.

It’s worth pointing out that Bloomberg and Murdoch have been friends and allies for years.

In an August 2001 story about Bloomberg’s mayoral ambitions in the Melbourne Australia Herald Sun, New York Post columnist Steve Dunleavy says that Bloomberg is “probably better known in Bondi” — a suburb of Sydney, Australia — “than in Brooklyn” because Bloomberg News runs on Australian pay TV. “He’s probably right,” Bloomberg said in the profile. “That’s thanks to Rupert (Murdoch). He put it on Foxtel well before it took off in other parts of the world.”

Bloomberg also chatted with his longtime friend before he made public his plans to change New York City’s term-limits laws and run for a third term; he’d need the New York Post, which Murdoch owns, on board.

Joyce Purnick, author of “Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics,” was given unprecedented access to the mayor, and describes Bloomberg in Sun Valley, Idaho, making plans with Murdoch, and the two dining at Primavera in Manhattan. Bloomberg was planning to announce his intention to seek a third term but had not made up his mind yet. Murdoch was clearly on board.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/11/murdoch-mayor-bloomberg-called-president-obama-the-most-arrogant-man-he-ever-met/