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Mayor Bloomberg was praised for taking the subway to work; But that may have been because his huge security detail would not have fit in a limo.
Mayor Bloomberg earned a reputation as a vocal advocate for nationwide gun control legislation
On the WABC Aaron Klein weekly radio talk show, the legendary comedian Jackie Mason called former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a hypocrite on the issue of gun control. He pointed to his armed staff of bodyguards who protect the billionaire businessman around the clock

Eternal firecracker Jackie Mason has the distinction of not only “telling it as it is,” but telling it as it should be.

The Rabbi-turned-comedian says the former Mayor and incipient presidential candidate’s position on gun control reeks of hypocrisy on Aaron Klein’s radio show.

“If guns are not important and nobody should have a gun to protect himself, why does Bloomberg have 12 bodyguards? Why doesn’t he stand there with 12 rabbis? Why do they have guns? Instead of guns they should have pastrami sandwiches.”

“He’s standing there with 12 bodyguards, telling you that you shouldn’t have a gun to protect you, while he has 12 guys protecting him … as if his life counts, but yours is not important?” The former mayor was often vaunted for “taking the subway to work.” But it looks like that may have been because his huge security detail would not have all fit in a limo.

Bloomberg has announced that he is “considering” a run for president, but not as a Republican. He did a quick change to the GOP when he first ran for mayor, avoiding a more daunting field of rivals in the democratic bullpen.

True to form, for this considered presidential run, he seems to feel that debates and party primaries are for other people and so has plans to leap in after all that is over and done with … as an independent.

Mason commented on the cultural shift that seems to indicate the possibility that a Jew could make it to The White House. “It’s unbelievable” he marveled, “we have a Jew if Bloomberg runs. We have another Jew with Sanders running. And we had a black person before. And the only person who can’t get a job for the presidency is a tall, white gentile.”

In 1956, Jackie Mason [Yacov Moshe Maza] was ordained as a rabbi by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. His ordination had him following the paths of his three brothers, his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather. After three years of getting so many laughs at his synagogue that congregants brought friends just for the shtick, he resigned his pulpit to pursue his so-far sixty-year career as a comedy legend, explaining that with all the Rabbis in his family, “Somebody had to make a living!”

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