Here's One Critic De Blasio Should Appreciate Having

They say you can know the mark of a man by the enemies he has - here's one enemy that Mayor de Blasio should be happy to have:

It’s a tale of the 1% city for Bernie Madoff.

The convicted swindler, cooling his heels in a North Carolina federal prison camp, is no fan of the progressive financial policies and vision touted by Mayor de Blasio.

“I’m not a great fan of redistribution of wealth,” the 75-year-old Wall Street villain said during a long, ranging interview with Politico.

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The former Democrat, who now identifies as an independent, says he voted for President Obama in 2008, but would not have in 2012 because the president policies have become “too socialist.”

Dunno what Madoff is talking about - banksters are doing as well or better under the "Socialist" Obama as they did under Bush the Capitalist.

As for Madoff not being a fan of redistribution, that's not true.

He surely liked to redistribute other people's money to himself through fraud and criminal activity.

In that way, I suspect he isn't all that different from many of the "capitalists" on Wall Street these days.

Mets Keep It Classy

He's with the Braves now, but better known with the 80's Mets:

The Atlanta Braves have placed coach Roger McDowell on administrative leave as the team investigates allegations that the former Mets pitcher threatened a dad who protested after McDowell hurled homophobic insults at fans.

Dave Wallace, the Braves minor league pitching coordinator, will serve as the team's acting pitching coach in the interim.

"We are very pleased that the Atlanta Braves have placed pitching coach Roger McDowell on administrative leave while they investigate my client Justin Quinn's allegations that Coach McDowell made gay slurs and engaged in sexually explicit and offensive conduct and threatening gestures," civil rights attorney Gloria Allred said in an email to the Daily News.

Quinn, a Fresno, Calif., environmental researcher who attended a Giants-Braves game in San Francisco with his 9-year-old twin daughters and wife on Saturday, said earlier this week that McDowell unleashed an anti-gay tirade at three men in the bleachers at AT&T Park.

Quinn said he objected, shouting at McDowell that his kids were watching his ugly display. "Kids don't f------ belong at a baseball park," McDowell shot back as he approached menacingly with a bat, according to Quinn. "How much are your teeth worth?"

Allred told the News this week that another fan has complained that McDowell unleashed a verbal tirade against him at a ballpark last year. She declined to identify the fan or the venue of the alleged incident but said she has provide that information to commissioner Bud Selig's office.

If the allegations are true, McDowell belongs nowhere near a ballpark.

Nowhere.

Kinda like the Wilpon Family.

Michelle Rhee Tries To Defend DC Test Fraud

Michelle Malkin Rhee says that all those erasures from wrong answers to right ones on the tests - so many at one DC school that a person would have better odds winning the Powerball jackpot than there being a likelihood of students erasing all those wrong answers and bubbling in right ones - are just a matter of good teaching techniques:

"This story is an insult to the dedicated teachers and schoolchildren who worked hard to improve their academic achievement levels," said Rhee. "There are many reasons for erasures and the presence of erasures does not mean someone cheated. In fact, it can mean that our students are being more diligent about doing well, yet to suggest that there is no way test scores could have improved for DCPS students unless someone cheated is absurd. At StudentsFirst we know dedicated teachers make a difference, a strong inspirational principal can turn a school around, and that children can perform at high levels when given the tools to do so."

She is SO right!

I mean, heck, who can't win the Powerball grand prize every couple of years, right?

The odds at winning that prize are actually 1 : 195,249,054

Those are better odds than betting that the students at that DC school erased all those wrong answers and made them right.

Michelle Malkin Rhee can try and deflect the criticism all she wants - I don't know what she is talking about with that "How dare you say children cannot do a high level of work when given the tools to do so!" jive.

That's not what the USA Today story said at all.

Rather it said there is a high probability that the test scores in DC that Rhee and her media minions were hawking as proof positive that she is an education miracle worker are fraudulent.

So high a probability that you have a better shot of winning Powerball than this not being fraud.

Address that fact, Ms. Rhee, and leave the deflection stuff to professional hockey players.