Host Gene Berardelli nominates the "Other" Brooklyn Young Republican Club as the Brooklyn GOP Radio's "Buffoon of the Week" for allowing the questioning of Mayoral Candidate John Catsimatidis to get out of hand
It is somewhat odd that a blog show sponsored by the Kings County Republican Committee, whose Chairman Craig Eaton has endorsed the candidacy of John Catsimatidis to be the Republican nominee for mayor, would intentionally choose to revisit the whole Catsimatidis meltdown at the Brooklyn Young Republican Club meeting last Sunday.Berardelli & Company's gambit to renew this whole discussion is especially problematic, since the candidate's own conduct and choice of language during the question and answer part of the program was itself so questionable and open to widespread criticism.
Obviously in his quest to tarnish the senior Young Republican organization in Brooklyn, because of some imagined competition with the Brooklyn GOP Radio's in-house favorite, the upstart Brooklyn YRs, Mr. Berardelli didn't care that he was risking yet another exposure of the soft underbelly of Chairman Eaton's chosen mayoral candidate, John Catsimatidis. It's clear that Berardelli knew what he was doing and what he was risking, because he specifically noted that the Brooklyn Young Republican Club had tried to "dial back" the more inflammatory aspects of Mr. Catsimatidis appearance at the club's meeting. One can only conclude that on Brooklyn GOP Radio the relative standing of Brooklyn's rival Young Republican organizations counts for more than preserving, protecting and promoting the good name and reputation of a leading GOP candidate for mayor and the one presumably endorsed by the Kings County Republican Organization.
Making matters worse, Gene Berardelli is guilty of taking a cheap shot at the Brooklyn Young Republican Club President Glenn Nocera. He doesn't say what Glenn was supposed to do when three different questioners either had problems with the candidate's answers, or in some other way caused the candidate to blowup during the question and answer period of the Catsimatidis presentation. If the candidate had such problems with his temper and his choice of words, one can only guess what Mr. Berardelli would have had Mr. Nocera do to fix things.
SOmebody is not on the same page with Gene and Bardelli. The Brooklyn YRS VP FRANK MORALE asked the BROOKLYN TEA PARTY PRESIDENT FRANK RUSSO to appear at his other BROOKLYN YOUNG REPUBLICANS and on BROOKLYN GOP RADIO SHOW. This was in the back of the pub right after FRANK RUsso had his big confrontation with Castimatidis that was on the YOUTUBE VIDEO
ReplyDeleteAll are welcome to either club. No one should be denied access because they have a difference of opinion with any political figure or speaker.
DeleteThe radio show welcomes those who agree and challenge with the hosts opions and beliefs.
"All" as in "everyone" ... like maybe J... ?
DeleteGOWAHN !!!
UPDATE: During Curtis Sliwa & Jeffrey Lichtman’s talk with GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis said some very inflammatory things.
ReplyDeleteOn the "Curtis & Jeffrey Show" on 970 AM Radio, Catsimatidis said that NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly needed his own CIA inside the mosques and Muslim schools to double check on what the Feds are doing. Then Catsimatidis said that if the Boston Police Department had done its job, more the of the people of Boston would be alive and not maimed ( Listen to the link at “The Fireside Chats Of The 2013 NY Mayor's Race? Well, Not Exactly, But...” by Celeste Katz, 5/1/13, NY Daily News/Daily Politics [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/05/the-fireside-chats-of-the-2013-mayors-race-well-not-exactly-but]).
Even when he is on his best behavior and being asked friendly questions, Catsimatidis is a loose cannon. Whether one agrees with what John Catsimatidis said or not, a mayor of New York City – or any serious candidate for that office – shouldn’t be saying things like that. All the video links from the Sunday YR Club show what he can be like when he gets ruffled.
It’s time to ask — Is this very rich loud mouth guy fit to be mayor of New York City? Other than as a piggy bank, was he a good choice to be the candidate of the Brooklyn Republican Party ?
He is not a loose cannon, he is just very emotional when it comes to New York. Ok he should be friendly Yes I agree with you and you and you and guess what he would just be bullshitting everyone.
ReplyDeleteI like him, he does not take crap off of anybody, lets go John!!!
Now why would John Catsimatidis run for Mayor?
ReplyDeletea)He wants to get rich?
b)He wants to get rid of all the street vendors that sell fruit?
c)He is bored?
After thinking for around another minute I really can't come up with anything else.
Now lets look at the other angle to why he is running.
a)He has approx 3 Billion Dollars and this is 3000 million dollars, well he does not need money and at his age 65 like Bloomberg who is 71 do you think John or Mike care about money and they are both smart and know they cant take their money with them.
b)He cares about this City, just like Bloomberg does.
c)What is he doing then, well maybe he is trying to give back what America gave a Greek who came here as an infant and made billions and he has lived The American Dream and he truly wants to help other immigrants and all New Yorkers.
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TO: Anonymous... 4:14 PM...
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UPDATE: It seems that the Brooklyn GOP Radio crowd is not the only bunch who want to keep stoking the embers of the Catsimatidis – Brooklyn YR Club flare-up of last Sunday. What looks like a small rump group of GOPers from the East Village, who call themselves “The Progress Republican Club” has decided to cross the East River and weigh in against the Brooklyn YR Club. Who knows what good the Progress Republican people think might come of that for their guest speaker of one month ago, John Catsimatidis.
ReplyDeleteFor the Catsimatidis – Brooklyn YR Club matter, this is what appears [as of 4:23 PM EDT on 5/3/13] on facebook for “The Progress Republican Club, Est. 1881, East Village”:
“The Progress Republican Club, Est. 1881, East Village
Tuesday
As president of the Progress Club which hosted Catsimatidis last month, I can't believe the way the Brooklyn Young Republicans treated him. Are they nuts? I hope they will like having Quinn or Liu as a mayor because that is where they are heading with crap like this. It's shameful and stupid and shows off their members to be absolute morons, boneheads and slobbering idiots. One more thing, they are lying about the year they were founded.”
For those checking names and taking down numbers, the President of The Progress Republican Club is one Steve Sinclair, who happens also to be running for City Council this year. Since posting the above on the facebook page of The Progress Republican Club, Mr. Sinclair became embroiled in a 3-day running facebook rank-out session with Glenn Nocera and several others who attended the Sunday YR Club festivities with John Catsimatidis. True to the candidate that he endorses for mayor, Mr. Sinclair also lost his cool at various points and resorted to a variety of colorful words and phrases.
For the record, according to the Brooklyn YR Club President Glenn Nocera, Mr. Sinclair has mis-characterized The Brooklyn Young Republican Club as an “ancillary” Republican Club. Perhaps Sinclair has mistakenly mis-identified the “ancillary” club for young Republicans in Brooklyn; that honor and distinction belongs to the rival Brooklyn YRs, who are the “Official” Young Republican Club of the Kings County Republican Party. The Brooklyn Young Republican Club, Established in 1880, is and has long been a free and independent Republican club in Brooklyn.
Anger what it does to people (hmm)
ReplyDeleteTo 7:42PM go bullshit yourself.
Maybe it was John, testing you all?
This forum gives you all power in your heads and that is what America is all about FREE SPEECH and the right to your opinion on what is right or wrong and I could see from Smith Street and this site you all would never comprise, it's not in you for you live in a hateful world full of name calling for you grew up in turmoil in your own world. I talk nice to you and with this, I knew you would find some fault with anything that I write for that is your nature. To Gale 4:14. The comments above are the same to you for you do more harm than good with your talking about politics, you love the turmoil and you think you know everything. I still enjoy your writing but guess what the Original Young Republicans are NOT Republicans and with this you can delete this for I will never ever visit this sad blog again and I will say prays for all of you and in the end, ask yourself was it worth it doing what I did?
In stead of bashing people all the time why don't you help people.
To: Anonymous ...7:56 AM
DeleteI haven't deleted yours above -- no reason to do so...
I don't "...love the turmoil and [ ] think [I] know everything...." The gods and goddesses of chaos or turmoil are pagan; and if you think that I am a pagan, I would suggest that you have mixed up with somebody else.
I don't think or pretend to know it all. Not only do I NOT know it all, I don't even know people who know it all... whether friends, enemies and/or neutrals -- whether the few scholars, intellectuals, well-read and well-spoken, or the far more common loud mouth louts and idiots, together with the humbler booger-eating morons sipping their booze and farting in the corners. All together, we don't come close to knowing it all.
Everything that I do and say on this blog is derivative and quite superficial, it couldn't possibly have the destructive capability that you would impute to it... more like the deliverable mega-tonnage of a shaker of salt in Margaritaville. .
Everything that I do and say on this blog is derivative and quite superficial, it couldn't possibly have the destructive capability that you would impute to it...
To quote the bard and everybody who quoted this line from the bard, including myself many times, all that gets posted here is "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." However, don't for a moment think that I am being self-deprecating when I say it. Not only is what I post "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing..."; so is everything and everybody that I post about.
That is very close to what Shakespeare really meant with the line himself. The whole quote is far more circumspect, cynical and sad than the mere "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing..." part suggests standing alone.
The whole line is this: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." It's NOT "a life" that is "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...."; it's LIFE itself that is "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...."
Have a nice day.
What a maroon !
DeleteYour right I am a maroon to think the entire world can become one in harmony. I am a reader of people, but I go much deeper I am a reader of souls. Gene has deleted all of my comments from their site for what ever reason they may have and that is their choice so be it.
ReplyDeleteShould I jump up and down and talk nasty about them? No
When my friend and or friends come to me and ask me to get signatures, what should I tell them? No you people treated me unfair?
No I will help them for that is what a person is to do, help their friends
Your right Gale it is all about nothing.
Have a nice day and thanks again for great writing and for reminding me I AM A MAROON.
PS: I learned a lot from each site I have visited.
One more question Gale.
In your opinion Gale since you have been a child, have you seen more Evil or Good on the Earth?
Like Galileo Galilei, I can't say what I have seen.
DeleteUPDATE: The Brooklyn Eagle set the record straight by reporting the story straight.
ReplyDeleteThe Brooklyn daily pointed out that John Catsimatidis’ appearance was far more light than heat, contrary to earlier reports of the event based only upon confrontations with three questioners (See “Young Republicans say media missed the point on Catsimatidis visit” by Paula Katinas, 5/7/13, Brooklyn Daily Eagle [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/young-republicans
-say-media-missed-point-catsimatidis-visit-2013-05-07-123000]).
Cmon man....
DeleteU sound like baghdad bob...
OK ! Be my guest...
DeleteYou put in the narrative that you think tells it more like it was.