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What America Needs to Know About Rudy Giuliani
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:49 PM EST
Article Source: Crooks and Liarsadvertisement
The article here isn't today's headlines but another PR bit promoting the Rudy myths appeared on AP so it needed a balancing piece. The Newsvine AP bit is linked below.
"Here are a few things America really needs to know about Rudy Giuliani:
Had Rudy Giuliani been mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, no one would be talking about what a great leader Giuliani is today.
I was in lower Manhattan on 9/11, and as I was working in Manhattan I spent most of my time there in the days and weeks after. So you can take my word on this: Rudy's post-9/11 "leadership" amounted almost entirely of the mayor appearing on television. He did a fine job of appearing on television, and he managed to set the right tone and say the right things — abilities Hizzoner did not always draw upon in the past. I give him credit for his performance. But that performance did not constitute "leadership." It was all public relations. It was all about Rudy.
Jimmy Breslin wrote,
He was a nobody as a mayor and in one day he became a hero. This sudden career, this door opening to a room of gold, all started for Rudolph Giuliani when his indestructible bunker in World Trade Center building blew up. He had personally selected it, high in the sky, and with tons of diesel fuel to give emergency power.
And Giuliani walks on. He walks from his bunker, up Barclay Street and went on television. Went on and announced his heroism and then came back every hour or so until he became a star, a great figure, a national hero, the mayor who saved New York.
Most of this comes from these dazed Pekingese of the Press. … Giuliani was a hero with these news people. He did not pick up a piece of steel or help carry one of the injured off. [Jimmy Breslin, "He Molests the Dead," New York Newsday, March 7, 2004]
The fact is that Giuliani did little to "lead" rescue or recovery efforts. While Rudy was prancing around on television, a hodge-podge of city agencies loosely — very loosely — coordinated by the Office of Emergency Management went to work deconstructing the remains of the World Trade Center with little input or direction from the Mayor.
Consider also that the World Trade Center was yards away from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. Unlike Mayor Nagin of New Orleans, Mayor Giuliani did not have to beg for help getting the debris cleared and electricity hooked up so that the financial district was up and running again as quickly as possible. New York's business leadership saw to that."
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{"commentId":555276,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
All the pro Rudy propaganda is giving me a cramp. He was a lousy mayor in the right place at the right time to jump on the bandwagon of imaginary GOP leadership. The only thing he did well was talk to the press like he was helping while he was hiding sand letting chaos reign and the brave do the heroic citizens do the jobs he would later take credit for. Rudy is a sleaze who was cheating on his wife.
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- 3 votes
#1 - Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:53 PM EST{"commentId":555449,"authorDomain":"adambecker"}
Allow me to speak on Rudy's behalf: 9/11!
{"commentId":555449,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"adambecker"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":555552,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
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{"commentId":555491,"authorDomain":"aine"}
He is for abortion rights, for gay rights, for gun control. While in much of America he is known as the fearless mayor who led his city through the Sept. 11 attacks, he has an unorthodox history. This is a man who announced on television that he was leaving his second wife — apparently news to her, too — and moved in with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu. Without being judgmental here, it's a good bet that prospective rivals have already written the ad script for that one.
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- 4 votes
#3 - Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:33 PM EST{"commentId":556273,"authorDomain":"ISPY"}
G.O.P. candy™ :)
too — and moved in with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu.
{"commentId":556273,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"ISPY"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":555511,"authorDomain":"regbarc"}
I was what they called a "rescure worker" on September 11, 13, and 14. It's my own opinion based on what I experienced that he is indeed an adequate leader.
This seed hasn't changed how I feel about Rudy, and the source has some partisan overtones. Oh wait, it's from Crooks and Liars.
{"commentId":555511,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"regbarc"}
- 3 votes
#4 - Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:45 PM EST{"commentId":555566,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Yup, crooks and liars like the way Goldman Sacks pocketed $1.6 billion in 9/11 recovery and had enough to give $40 million dollar bonuses out at Christmas. They're selling off the last bits of America while other workers from Ground Zero are dying from exposure without benefits. Crooks and liars in Washington, hiding behind patriotic spin laughing all the way to the bank. Dirtbags all of them, Rudy, the Clintons and Bushes and the bulk of the rest, inside the beltway.
{"commentId":555566,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":556275,"authorDomain":"ISPY"}
Priceless Links there Pamela drew thanks for those.
{"commentId":556275,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"ISPY"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":556303,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Glad someone likes them, linking these dirtbags is an obsession and I'm happy to share! :~)
{"commentId":556303,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":558566,"authorDomain":"CopenhagenDK"}
In Europe, he's almost always linked to the "zero tolerance" approach to crime. Perhaps it's because crime seems to rising over here.
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- 3 votes
#5 - Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:19 AM EST{"commentId":558635,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Thank Bush for his part producing that record breaking year of Afghan opium flooding the EU.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":558669,"authorDomain":"CopenhagenDK"}
Europe is capable of creating its own problems. No one is forcing us to buy the Afghan's opium. America isn't so powerful that it determines what drugs we abuse here in Europe. The opium ends up here because we want it.
And just like the Colombians say, the problem needs to be dealt with at both ends of the supply chain. The afghans wouldn't grow it if the demand wasn't so great.
{"commentId":558669,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"CopenhagenDK"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":558736,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Every group of people on earth can create their own problems but flooding markets encourages increased consumption. The remark wasn't a dig at the EU just a true reflection of the fact that a military occupation to stop terrorists can't even keep the illegal drug flow steady.
{"commentId":558736,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":558777,"authorDomain":"CopenhagenDK"}
No offense taken, just taking responsibility for our own mistakes.
It is sad that more isn't being achieved in stopping opium production...
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":558877,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
The victors in the Opium Wars were the big traders and shipping magnates, Russells and Forbes and as far as my research shows, they still control it but use covert operations to move it instead of taxable trade. There's a link that isn't working for me now, maybe later.
{"commentId":558877,"threadId":"80034","contentId":"587804","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 3 votes
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