Sliwa to Weiner: If You're Mayor, Will You Talk to Me?

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By Azi Paybarah

March 7, 2008 | 1:27 p.m

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Anthony Weiner, a mayoral candidate who has no particular love for Michael Bloomberg, was the guest on Curtis Sliwa’s radio show, which replaced the John Gambling show that had featured Michael Bloomberg weekly for six years.

Bloomberg’s absence was fodder for Weiner and Sliwa, who had this exchange:

Sliwa:
If you’re lucky enough, fortunate enough to be elected mayor - over my dead boy I might add - will you take the plunge and sit side by side with me, if I am lucky enough to still be here, and subject yourself to my Sliwaisms and my form of cross examinations?

Weiner:
Well Curtis, I’m going to tell you this. You have never been particularly kind to me.

Sliwa:
Never.

[skip]
Weiner:
My view [is] when you’re mayor, you don’t just sit down for the softballs, you sit down for the tough ones as well.

As a thank you, Sliwa then played the Oscar Meyer Weiner song.

You can hear excerpts from Sliwa’s show here and here.