Most ridiculous Rudy Nine Eleven story of the day?

Rudy Giuliani Does Business With Sheik Who Helped 9/11 Mastermind Elude FBI

Village Voice article: Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh

Rudy is great judge of character: three wives, Bernie Kerik, terror sheikhs, George Steinbrenner...

OR:

Giuliani’s personal scandals take a turn for the worse

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

Neither is very surprising, but what really gets me about Rudy: what did he do on 9/11 and after that was so phokking great in the first place? Certainly, nothing he did prior to 9/11 helped thwart the attacks or prepare the city for disaster. He was seen on the streets after the bombings? That makes someone a hero? (Of course, he had nowhere to go since the anti-terror office was placed in the Trade Center.) Someone enlighten me here, throw me a bone...

In a related study:

Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find
They're blind to own failings, others' skills

he should be tortured until he tells the truth, just like Rudy used to do to his mob friends

Breaking NEWS: Bernard Kerik Indicted!
Rudy Giuliani’s BFF was just indicted by a federal grand jury!
A FEDERAL GRAND JURY HAS VOTED TO INDICT EX-N.Y. CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER BERNARD KERIK ON CHARGES STEMMING FROM TAX EVASION AND CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS, SOURCES TELL ABC NEWS.
And to think Rudy recommended him to Bush to replace Tom Ridge as secretary of Homeland security.

Just what is Rudy G. doing behind there?

in Wingnut World, anything is possible

Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy Giuliani

So, apparently the “values” of the “Values Voter” include infidelity, divorce, tolerance of homosexuality, cross-dressing, mob ties and bearing false witness. Cool.

Seems strange - maybe Pat-Rob likes what he sees in the strategy against uppity darkies:

Strategists for Rudy Giuliani are quietly preparing a significantly race-based campaign strategy to strengthen support among socially conservative white voters, in the South as well as in the North. […]
Giuliani’s eight years as New York’s chief executive exemplified a Northern adaptation of the GOP’s politically successful “Southern strategy” - the strategy playing on white resistance to and resentment of federal legislation passed in the 1960s mandating desegregation - resistance that produced a realignment in the South and fractured the Democratic loyalties of white working class voters in the urban North from 1968 to 2004.
It’s hard to know exactly what this strategy would look like in practice, but Tom Edsall’s report suggests Giuliani will appeal to white conservatives by emphasizing his conflicts with NYC’s African-American community. The idea, apparently, is to deflect attention from his positions on abortion, gays, guns, and immigration by pointing to race — the implicit message being: “How liberal can Giuliani be if he constantly fought with black people in New York?”

Now, will Rudy except the endorsement from a man who said we deserved to be attacked on 9/11?

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way-all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen."
PAT ROBERTSON: I totally concur. The problem is that we’ve adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. We’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do and the top people are the court system.

Round and round the wingnuts go, how shameless they will get nobody knows...

he is nothing if but flexible...is he a former gymnast?...well, it would explain the leotards and tutus he likes to wear...

The hard to execute flip-flop-flip

Now that Rudy Giuliani is a serious presidential contender, he’s moved to the far right on most of the issues, flip-flopping all the way. But when it comes to healthcare, particularly for low-income kids, the former mayor has exectued a rare flip-flop-flip. It’s quite an accomplishment.

First, Giuliani was against expanding access through programs like S-CHIP…

Before his illness, Giuliani the Mayor resembled Giuliani the Presidential Candidate. Both showed little interest in expanding coverage to New York’s poor or uninsured, and both Giulianis gave only tepid support and financial backing to an S-CHIP-style program for New York’s uninsured children.

…then he was for it…

[I]n the immediate wake of his own cancer diagnosis, Mayor Giuliani embraced government-run health insurance, or what candidate Giuliani now calls “socialized medicine,” and explicitly tied his change of heart, in deeply personal and emotional terms, to his own experience as a prostate cancer patient.

…and now he’s against it again:

It now appears that Giuliani has forgotten all about his and other people’s pain, and his previous backing of a significant expansion of the role of government in helping to ease it.

Rudy Giuliani HATES the Michigan Wolverines

Gotta agree with Rudy on dis one...

Rudy Giuliani, on his New York mayoral radio show in 1999, responding to a representative of ferret owners who called in to question the city's ferret ban:
"There is something really, really very sad about you. You need help. You need somebody to help you. This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness. . . . You should go consult a psychologist or psychiatrist and have him help you with this excessive concern, how you are devoting your life to weasels. . . . Something has gone wrong with you. Your compulsion about it, your excessive concern with it is a sign of something wrong in your personality. . . . You have a sickness, and I know it's hard for you to accept that because you hang onto this sickness, and it's your shield, it's your whatever, I don't know. . . ."

The complete audio is at www.ferretlife.com

Poor Rudy

Looks like he can't even count on his daughter's vote, but that's probably his fault...

Rudy Giuliani's daughter is supporting Barack Obama.

Rudy Responds "Nine-Eleven" Take 2

(CNN) – Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani charged his Democratic counterparts of being soft on terrorism in last night’s debate.
“I am becoming increasingly concerned that the Democrats don’t mention the term ‘Islamic terrorism’ during their debates,” he told reporters at a campaign stop today in Riverside, California. “I almost get the sense that they are debating as if there isn’t an Islamic terrorist threat to this country.”
Giuliani was speaking at a fundraiser in San Fransisco last night and didn’t get a chance to watch the debate, but was able to review transcripts this morning.
Giuliani, who served as New York’s mayor during the September 11th attacks, has made leadership on terrorism a primary theme of his presidential campaign.
– CNN’s Mark Norman

Olbermann totally spanks Rudy Giuliani

Olbermann’s Special Comment on Giuliani’s Fearmongering: How Dare You, Sir?