Thursday, November 29, 2007

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

2 comments:

k-mad said...

Anybody who was playing the "drink a shot when Rudy mentions 9/11" drinking game during the Rethuglican debate last night probably didn't make it in to work today, by the way.

Anonymous said...

9/11