Mayor avoids fight with Rush

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has decided discretion is the better part of valor.
Or, you don't get into a shouting match with the man who owns the microphone.
Rather than respond to the slight by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the mayor is letting pass a slur being seized on in the blogosphere.
Limbaugh, on his radio show, was talking about a recent time when he met with former President Clinton and Villaraigosa:
"I shook [Clinton's] hand, he left, comes back [with] the mayor of Los Angeles," Limbaugh said. "I thought it was a Secret Service agent, maybe a shoeshine guy. Turns out he gives me his card, I said, 'Oh, my gosh, it's the mayor of Los Angeles.'"
Villaraigosa aides said the mayor had heard the story several months ago and didn't believe it merited a response. "He's been called worst than that," one aide said.
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