Michael Bloomberg’s valiant effort to buy the Democratic presidential nomination has been undercut by a few things: his corpselike charisma, his appalling debate skills, his inability to offer up any concrete reason he should be president other than that he has a lot of money. He’s got some serious political baggage, like the stop & frisk policing policies that targeted young men of color during his New York City mayoral reign, that are keeping him from tapping into key voter demographics. And, of course, he was a super creepy boss. But that’s behind him now! Sorry to anyone annoyed!
On a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday night, Bloomberg addressed some of the truly endless uncouth statements his employees say he made to and about women on staff, which, for the record, include things like, “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and that he would “do” a woman employee, or that a pregnant employee should “Kill it.” (My colleague Ashley Reese compiled a lengthy collection of sexist Bloombergisms here, should you care to read more.)