The City Hall aide Rachel Noerdlinger cant stop making news,    even though her boss, Mayor de Blasio, keeps ordering the world    to stop talking about her  and her ex-boss, Al Sharpton, is    essentially issuing threats to reporters on the subject.  
    Case closed, de Blasio declared last week about laffaire    Noredlinger. I think weve talked enough about this, he said    the other day.  
    The only proper response to such arrogance from a guy who works    for us is this: Go soak your head, Bill, well talk about it    just as long as we like.  
    Sharpton offered an implicit threat over the weekend to    reporters who dared write about Noerdlinger: Lets get the    name of everybody at City Hall, see whos been around anybody    whos been busted, including Room 9 where the reporters are.  
    In other words: Shut up, City Hall reporters, or Ill do some    investigating of my own.  
    Sharpton may have lost a ton of weight, but he hasnt lost his    talent for menace.  
    Whats going on here? Truth is, de Blasio may be benefiting    from the fact were all talking about this, and from the    seemingly mystifying fact that hes standing behind an aide who    lied to the city Department of Investigations while seeking    clearance for her job.  
    Ordinarily, this whole thing wouldve been over in five minutes    after Noerdlinger first hit the news, with her quietly    resigning and the whole thing blowing over instantly.  
    That didnt happen in this case because de Blasio clearly sees    a political advantage in defending Rachel Noerdlinger.  
    Yesterdays Noerdlinger story was about unpaid parking tickets    shes received since the start of the de Blasio mayoralty.    Thats small beer, certainly, notable only because of the spate    of revelations over the past two weeks.  
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Why Rachel remains: This fight helps the mayor