The profane ‘wit and wisdom’ of Mike Bloomberg

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Political investigative reporter Michael Kranish on Mike Bloomberg’s long history of alleged sexism and profanity. And Travis DeShong describes a new kind of card game meant to make even people at dinner parties more vulnerable.

Newly uncovered documents show Mike Bloomberg’s long history of alleged sexism and profanity in the workplace.

Don’t like people, or even yourself? Try a vulnerability card game.

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0:00.0	Post Reports is sponsored by Hunters on Amazon Prime Video.
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0:17.4	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:20.7	Hello, hey, you.
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0:23.6	Hi, this is Beth Ryan,
0:25.5	Lori Artonio, Writ the Post.
0:27.5	I'm, this is Post Reports.
0:29.8	I'm our team powers.
0:33.6	It's Tuesday, February 18th.
0:38.1	Today, the allegations of sexism that have dogged Michael Bloomberg for years.
0:43.4	And card games that tap into a sense of earnestness.
0:46.8	Michael Bloomberg is a person worth about $60 billion.
0:54.5	B is in Bloomberg, B is in billion.
0:56.5	He's run this company, eponymously named Bloomberg,
0:59.6	just like Trump has his own company named after himself.
1:02.5	And he is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
1:06.8	If you share my belief in,
1:08.7	opportunity for all and not just for a few.
1:12.6	He just qualified to be on the debate stage in Nevada on Wednesday night.
1:17.5	And he's also spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ads that are now hitting the airwaves.
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