TURKISH DAFFY

"Where's Kev?"

You know I'm getting old when, yesterday, I didn't bother walking five minutes in the rain to watch Eric Adams meet the press outside Gracie Mansion. Hell, I couldn't be bothered getting off the couch to get a decent photo of the TV for MSNBC's coverage.

Our Mayor pulled the usual accused politician routine by trotting out his passel of friends and "faith leaders". After declaring his innocence, he was followed by 10 or 15 minutes of several of his pals defending him while hiding safely behind them. The MSNBC panel showed their interest in what they had to say by talking over them until the Mayor returned. Unlike the news folks, a small group of black protesters loudly demanding that he quit his job pronto had no such qualms about drowning him out.

"As you can see, the names of DeSantis and
Abbott are nowhere to be found."

Perhaps the protesters knew what had already been repeated on all the networks: the Department of Justice doesn't just hand out indictments like free passes to the Scientology Center. The feds have the goods on whoever's on their sites. Adams' claim that this is a set up by the Biden administration for his complaints about the "migrant problem" doesn't hold water. Otherwise, the Governors of Texas and Florida would have had their cellphones confiscated by now. 

This could be a suite at the Marriott in Omaha.

Something Adams should explain is how and why he started taking those first class trips to Turkey and stayed in the finest suites at the St.Regis-Marriott Istanbul Hotel as far back as 2017 when he was the Borough President of Brooklyn. Even at the then-annual salary of $179,200, those were fairly pricey vacays.

While I'm sure Istanbul is an interesting place to visit, cities like Rome, Paris, and London can cater to his all his vegan needs. I guess those tourist hotspots didn't have people willing to make illegal campaign contributions or skip the safety measures at their consulates in New York.

Forecast for Eric Adams: clouds for the
foreseeable future with 100% chance of ridicule.

As with the legal problems that drove Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo out of office, Eric Adams will have these indictments hanging over his head until he's unemployed one way or the other. At 7:00 this morning, news crews had set up outside Gracie Mansion for another full day of coverage, with even the WCBS "weather lab" getting into the act. Hope the free stuffed grape leaves and baklava were worth it, Mr. Mayor.

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