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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minti.

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Speaker 1: Coming up this week on Saturday Morning. You have to

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Speaker 1: hear political analysts Melissa DeRosa and her takedown of Mayor

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Speaker 1: Zuru and mom Donnie after his fake budget crisis. You

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Speaker 1: put it much better than I did in your post piece,

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Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people are with you

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Speaker 1: on this. Melissa.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, Larry, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean watching that press conference with sort of

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Speaker 2: a surreal experience. I wasn't paying attention in a friends

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Speaker 2: texted me and said, are you watched? I turned it

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Speaker 2: on and I caught it, and it was like jaw

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Speaker 2: on the ground moment, like he just discovered that there

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Speaker 2: was this deficit and it had been hiding all this time.

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Speaker 2: And of course the culprit was Eric Adams, who hid

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Speaker 2: the numbers from the public. And evil Andrew Cuomo, who

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Speaker 2: by the way, hasn't been in office in five years.

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Speaker 2: Is just the most absurd performance art I have ever seen.

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Speaker 2: Wire just consistent with who this guy is, right, never

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Speaker 2: had a job, doesn't have any experience, has never had

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Speaker 2: any responsibilities. Like rich kids, son of an Oscar Award

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Speaker 2: winning director. And you know, the people of New York City,

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Speaker 2: A million people voted for him, a million people voted

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Speaker 2: against him, but he won. And now we're stuck with him.

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Speaker 2: And what we saw was an Academy Award winning performance.

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Speaker 2: It's just I think didn't go over well. I think

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Speaker 2: maybe it played to some of his fans, but anyone

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Speaker 2: with a brain in their head saw right through what

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Speaker 2: he was doing, which was, you're right, so he's into

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Speaker 2: a way to raise taxes.

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Speaker 1: He is a great performer, and that's how he won.

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Speaker 1: That's how he became mayor, with his performances in the subways,

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Speaker 1: on social media, in the videos that he constantly had out.

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Speaker 1: And he's a great performer when he's on national TV,

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Speaker 1: when he's on the view, when on CNN, it turns

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Speaker 1: out right away we can tell he's an awful manager.

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Speaker 1: He's an awful administrator, an awful man.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and look you see it with the snowstorm.

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Speaker 2: And you know, my friends in the press, which you know, guys,

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Speaker 2: come up. Your job is to actually scrutinize this guy.

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Speaker 2: It's not to cheerlead for him. And I think far

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Speaker 2: too many of the members of the media have become

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Speaker 2: like activist journalists or like our fanboys of this kid.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I saw too many stories where people

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Speaker 2: were like, he passes early test on snowstorm. Really ten

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Speaker 2: people died as a direct result of his policies where

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Speaker 2: he said we are not going to break down homeless

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Speaker 2: encampments because people have a right to live on the streets,

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Speaker 2: which I don't know what progressive thinking says it's kind

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Speaker 2: to leave people on the streets to die, which is

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Speaker 2: exactly what happened. I mean, this was not the snowstorm

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Speaker 2: of the century, Larry Right. It was inches we have

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Speaker 2: dealt with far worse before, and on Blasio's watch, who

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Speaker 2: I didn't think very highly of. I'm sure your audience agreed.

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Speaker 2: I thought was a bit of a bumbling buffoon when

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Speaker 2: it came to management. Anything that didn't happen under him,

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Speaker 2: that didn't happen under Eric Adams. So you know, here

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Speaker 2: we havebsor on mom dummy, and they're saying, oh, passes

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Speaker 2: early tests based on what because he put out some

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Speaker 2: TikTok videos saying like stay home and take care of

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Speaker 2: your neighbors. The sidewalks are still a mess to day.

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Speaker 2: The crosswalks are still a mess today. People can't get

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Speaker 2: on the buses that he pretends are such an important,

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Speaker 2: you know, transit part of the city. People can't get

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Speaker 2: on the buses because the snow isn't clear for people

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Speaker 2: to get on the buses. So I think out of

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Speaker 2: the gate, he has been a disaster, and that budget,

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Speaker 2: you know, Michigoth this week was just the cherry on

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Speaker 2: top of the cake.

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Speaker 1: No, it was a great performance, though, You're right, you know,

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Speaker 1: do you notice he didn't even smile one time? That smile?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, he did. He did his solemn zoran.

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Speaker 2: He's got a few. You know, there was the time

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Speaker 2: when he was pretending that there was all of this islamophobia. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: you have actual anti Semitism raging across New York City,

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Speaker 2: people crashing into synagogues, hurling things that rabbis chanting disgusting

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Speaker 2: things that people walking into temples. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: he got up to that microphone and he cried he

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Speaker 2: had those fake phony crocodile tears. The zoron we got

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Speaker 2: this week was the solemn Zoran. Like, I've just discovered

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Speaker 2: this that they've been hiding these this budget problem and

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Speaker 2: how garah Meyer hides something like this, and now we

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Speaker 2: must all come together and tax the rich in the corporations.

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Speaker 2: And you know he had this stat Larry that he kept,

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Speaker 2: and this is where he tried to pivot to blaming Cuomo,

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Speaker 2: who Zarry said, Oh, you know, there's been these systemic

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Speaker 2: shifts over the years where you've got fifty four percent

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Speaker 2: of taxes paid to New York State by New York City,

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Speaker 2: but we only get forty percent back. Except that's not

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Speaker 2: the truth. That's the number of people who work in

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Speaker 2: New York City, but a lot of those people live

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Speaker 2: in Long Islands. They live in Westchester, they live in Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: they live in New Jersey, and they don't actually benefit

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Speaker 2: from any of the services in New York City, but

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Speaker 2: they still pay the taxes there. When you do the

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Speaker 2: actual resident to what you get back, the ratio is

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Speaker 2: much smaller. It's about forty one to forty six percent.

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Speaker 2: And given the concentrated wealth in New York City, that's

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Speaker 2: nothing surrounding error. The reality is Long Island is actually

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Speaker 2: the people that get short changed. They carry much of

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Speaker 2: the load for upstate New York. So the whole thing

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Speaker 2: was performative. What he really wants is to raise taxes.

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Speaker 2: It's not about the why, it's the what. It's because

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Speaker 2: it's ideological. It's his you know, allegiance to the extremists

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Speaker 2: and the Democratic Socialists of America who all they really

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Speaker 2: care about is class warfare. It's not about what you

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Speaker 2: actually produce or do for people. And that's also evident

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Speaker 2: in the fact that he went out with Kathy Hochel

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Speaker 2: and the mission accomplished when he said, oh, we got

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Speaker 2: universal child's care, when he ran on free child care

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Speaker 2: for every child starting at six weeks, and this like

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Speaker 2: handshake deal he got with Hochel is for essentially a

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Speaker 2: pilot program for two thousand slots for two year olds

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Speaker 2: in a state with over two hundred and twenty thousand

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Speaker 2: two year old. Wow about substance.

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Speaker 1: Man, well done. That was really good. You are going

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Speaker 1: to be the anti mom, Donnie. That was really.

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Speaker 2: Someone's got to be the resistance, Larry, And god knows,

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Speaker 2: I'm not relying on the media to do any real scrutinizing,

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Speaker 2: So anytime you want to talk facts, I'm happy to

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Speaker 2: come on and go through it with your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful. Thanks a lot, Melissa de Rose, a

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Speaker 1: democratic political strategist and author. We'll talk again soon. This

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Speaker 1: has been a podcast from wor