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Article: Microphones Catch New York Mayor Criticizing Atkins, Diet.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- January 21, 2004
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By David Saltonstall, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 21--Mayor Bloomberg puts down the late diet guru while chowing down at Brooklyn firehouse. Mayor Mike obviously thought the other mike in the room was turned off.
In a rare moment of candor, picked up by a New York 1 News camera, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday described the slip-and-fall death of Dr. Robert Atkins last April as "bull----" -- and called the diet guru "fat."
While chowing down on bow-tied pasta and chicken at a Brooklyn firehouse yesterday, Hizzoner opined, "Atkins is dead. I don't believe that bull---- that he dropped dead slipping on a ...