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Somebody tell Mike Bloomberg that Roseanne Barr was kicked off her own show for telling a joke some people didn't like.

At last night's debate, Elizabeth Warren challenged Mike Bloomberg about the women — who knows how many? — who worked for Bloomberg and have signed nondisclosure agreements over sexual harassment and sex discrimination claims. She wasn't accepting his prepared response that there are many other women who've done quite well in his organization

WARREN: I hope you heard what his defense was. "I've been nice to some women." That just doesn't cut it.... So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements, so we can hear their side of the story?

BLOOMBERG: We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.

WARREN: How many is that?

BLOOMBERG: Let me finish.

WARREN: How many is that?

BLOOMBERG: None of them accuse me of doing anything, other than maybe they didn't like a joke I told. And let me just -- and let me -- there's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that's up to them. They signed those agreements, and we'll live with it.

"We" will live with it? Fine. We'll live with it and your presidential campaign will die with it.

At this point in the debate, Biden calls out "Come on," and for once, I'm enjoying the Bidenism, which I would translate as: What bullshit!

How can Bloomberg live in the Democrats' America and not realize that telling a bad joke is cause for cancellation — banishment from your own well-established professional life? Here he is, expecting to make a big step up professionally, and he thinks he can shrug off a mere joke in the old male chauvinist style that would have us picture women as priggish and humor deaf. Quite aside from sexism, the old man is not up to speed with his own culture. How could he think he could get off the hook when Roseanne Barr — who ran for President in 2012 — got banished for one joke? The notion that jokes don't matter is profoundly out of touch.

WARREN: So, wait, when you say it is up to -- I just want to be clear. Some is how many? And -- and when you -- and when you say they signed them and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now OK with you? You're releasing them on television tonight? Is that right?

I love the lawprof vigor Warren displayed there. She listened to what he said and she instantly spun it into questions that displayed how defective his answer was and put him on the spot:

BLOOMBERG: Senator...

WARREN: Is that right, tonight?

BLOOMBERG: Senator, the company and somebody else, in this case -- a man or a woman or it could be more than that, they decided when they made an agreement they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interests.

BIDEN: Come on.

Ha ha. Biden popped in again with his "Come on" (AKA "What bullshit!").

BLOOMBERG: They signed the agreements and that's what we're going to live with.

There's that "we" again. He just reused his prepared line. "We're going to live with"... how did his well-paid advisers come up with that idea and give him no backup. I think the idea is that the agreements are between the complainants and somebody other than him, so he doesn't have the power to end the agreements. In that light, "They signed the agreements and that's what we're going to live with" might have sounded like the perfect little packaged response. But out there on the big stage of the debate, pressured by the ace lawprof, it sounds piddling and weaselly. And anyone steeped in #MeToo will think: This is exactly the problem, this is how these horrible men have protected themselves all these years.

And Bloomberg looked so blandly smug, like he thought these people challenging him were beneath him and he could just stand there and expect everyone to recognize that facts are facts and he's the only one who could beat Donald Trump and then carry out presidential duties with competence and pragmatism. But he could not even figure out how to handle the predictable attacks at this planned event. I wonder if he even knew as he was speaking how badly he was failing. But maybe he knew and had no other option than to play out the planned script. Maybe the plan was: Don't do anything on the fly. Don't let them unsettle you. Just say "They signed the agreements and that's what we're going to live with." That's the answer. The door is closed. Do not open it. Don't fall for their tricks.

And maybe there's already a Bloomberg ad — or 2 or 3 or 10 — papering over and reframing his bad debate performance.

The transcript continues. This part of the debate is far from over, but it's not Bloomberg talking anymore. The prey is down and the pack of predators leaps upon him:

BUTTIGIEG: You could release them now.

WARREN: I'm sorry. No, the question is...

BLOOMBERG: I heard your question.

WARREN: ... are the women bound by being muzzled by you and you could release them from that immediately? Because, understand, this is not just a question of the mayor's character. This is also a question about electability. We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.

(APPLAUSE)

That's not what we do as Democrats.

JACKSON: Mr. Vice President?

BIDEN: Look, let's get something straight here. It's easy. All the mayor has to do is say, "You are released from the nondisclosure agreement," period.

(APPLAUSE)

We talk about transparency here. This guy got himself in trouble saying that there was a non -- that he couldn't disclose what he did. He went to his company...

BUTTIGIEG: Just to be super-clear, that was about the list of clients, so nobody gets the wrong idea.

BIDEN: No, no, no. Yeah, I'm sorry.

(LAUGHTER)

BUTTIGIEG: I know what you mean. No, you're right.

BIDEN: But he said -- he went to the company and said I want to be released, I want to be able to do it. Look, this is about transparency from the very beginning, whether it's your health record, whether it's your taxes, whether it's whether you have cases against you, whether or not people have signed nondisclosure agreements.

You think the women, in fact, were ready to say I don't want anybody to know about what you did to me? That's not how it works. The way it works is they say, look, this is what you did to me and the mayor comes along and his attorneys said, I will give you this amount of money if you promise you will never say anything. That's how it works.

(APPLAUSE)

JACKSON: Mayor Bloomberg, final word to you?

Does the bloody prey want to lift up his woeful head and mutter any last words?

BLOOMBERG: I've said we're not going to get -- to end these agreements because they were made consensually and they have every right to expect that they will stay private.

(AUDIENCE BOOS)

Oh! No pity for the dying beast! They booed him! And the predators converge once again on the tasty flesh:

BIDEN: If they want to release it, they should be able to release themselves. Say yes.

SANDERS: Can I add a word to this?

Oh, yeah, why not? Come on, Bernie. It's a juicy buffet. Don't hold back!

SANDERS: You know, we talk about electability, and everybody up here wants to beat Trump, and we talk about stop and frisk, and we talked about the workplace that Mayor Bloomberg has established and the problems there. But maybe we should also ask how Mayor Bloomberg in 2004 supported George W. Bush for president, put money into Republican candidates for the United States Senate when some of us -- Joe and I and others -- were fighting for Democrats to control the United States Senate.

No reason to stick to the sex topic. Throw everything else at him now. It's fun! It's a feeding frenzy:

BIDEN: And didn't support Barack.

Barack! The holy name is invoked!

SANDERS: Maybe we can talk -- maybe we can talk about a billionaire saying that we should not raise the minimum wage or that we should cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. If that's a way to beat Donald Trump, wow, I would be very surprised.

And with that the moderators, without going back to the bleeding carcass, move on to the next topic.

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