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Bloomberg Loves Himself... On Cover Of The New Yorker
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 3, 2011
Modified Feb 3, 2011
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Some New Yorker subscribers have had a few days (or not) to LOL about this week's cover of Mayor Bloomberg gazing at himself in the mirror while seated at a vanity with a box of chocolates (the card reads "To Me"). Today, the press corps asked the cover boy what he thought of the Barry Blitt illustration—turns out that double the Bloomberg is all right with Mike! The Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Howard Saul described Hizzoner as such, "Bloomberg gushed with tremendous pride and happiness. In Yiddish it’s called kvelling."
“I thought it was great,” he declared. “I thought it was cute looking in the mirror,” Bloomberg added. “I’ve said this a thousand times -- I like what I see in the mirror. I hope everybody here does.”
The mayor, who coincidentally turns 69 on Valentine’s Day, took a moment to regale reporters about why he’s so fond of himself.
“I get up in the morning and I work as hard as I can. And my kids have turned out great,” he said. And he was just getting started: “You know, I’m a lucky enough guy to have made a lot of money, and I’m giving it all away and making a big difference.”
Bloomberg also mentioned how Johns Hopkins University students who went to his alma mater thanks to his generous scholarships have thanked him and that since Pope Benedict and President Obama have been on the cover, he's happy to be in such company.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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