The Union Club Hates All You Common, Low-Born Journalists

When reporters attended the Manhattan Institute’s Urban Innovators Award ceremonies at the Union Club, things were supposed to be well and good. Members of the press were invited to see Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduce this year’s award winner, Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Then the Union Club decided to kick the journalists out… just because they could. They implied that they could have them arrested too! According to one of the booted journalists, the New York Sun‘s Grace Rauh:

After guests were served a lunch of roasted potatoes, stuffed chicken, and mixed vegetables, staff members of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, which was hosting the event and publicized it to members of the press, told reporters they needed to leave at the behest of club officials.