City Of The Low Shoulders Rahm Emanuel Doesn T Measure Up To Bill De Blasio

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• Mayor Emanuel shakes hands with one of the high school basketball players honored at a City Council meeting last April.

Bill de Blasio, the new mayor of New York, has been telling tall stories about his height, the New York Times revealed yesterday. He’s been misrepresenting his stature in a surprising direction: he has claimed to be six-foot-five, but is actually taller.

The story, which ran on the Times‘s front page, was headlined, “A Mayor Most Everybody Looks Up To, Even When He Slouches”.

Emanuel apparently meant that groveling in politics is sometimes admirable. As mayor, he clearly has appreciated aldermen who stand tall around him.