Liu Who? What Did The Comptroller Know, And When Did He Know It?
Everywhere John Liu has traveled this week he has found a crowd of people waiting for him, hanging on his every word.
They were members of the city’s press corps, and Mr. Liu treated them to a rolling, week-long, five-borough press conference—a dialogue that read as if it could be snatched from a piece of absurdist opera, key words and phrases thrown together and repeated ad nauseam. Mr. Liu himself starred as the antihero, trying to keep his timbre steady as he falls deeper and deeper into the abyss. Read More
