Bloomberg

He's not vanishing yet, but he did do a great disappearing act this evening outside St. Vincent's Hospital. I was walking by when I saw a gang of journalists and newscameras waiting for him to emerge and make a statement about the two injured firefighters who were hit by a falling jackhammer at the Deutsche Bank Building today. The firefighters were taken to the hospital earlier.



Bloomberg breezed right by without a word, sending the media and onlookers into a frenzy. One angry man waved the New York Times in the air and shouted, "Who is John Galt? Who is John Galt?" quoting the Ayn Rand line and referring to the mysterious "corporate entity" that was hired to dismantle the Deutsche Bank Building.



After Bloomberg zoomed away in his big Chevy Suburban, his PR guy (called a "lapdog" by one of the irate journalists) said that the mayor never speaks publicly on the day of a funeral, meaning the funeral for firefighter Graffagnino of the Deutsche Bank fire. "Is the firefighter with the head injury alive?" one of the journalists asked. The PR guy wouldn't say, instituting what another newsguy grumblingly called a "24-hour blackout."

Lou Young of CBS News (who was there today joking about the popularity of his youtube fall) reports tonight that both firefighters are alive and in stable condition.


"who is john galt?"