Archive for the 'Rudy Giuliani' Category

Giuliani isn’t telling the truth????

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Giuliani Still Working at Firm He Promised to Leave
By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 30, 2007; A06
Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.
Giuliani’s continuing involvement with […]

Do you think Giumpn’ Giuliani will like my campaign poster?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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Images) (Top) achievement.org; Middle) msnbcmedia.msn.com via stevegilliard.blogspot,com; (Bottom) farm1.staticflickr.com via videolicio.us

What!? Giuliani says water-boarding may not be torture?!

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

October 25, 2007, 8:20 am
The Caucus-Political Blogging from The New York Times
In His Words: Giuliani on Torture
By Michael Cooper
DAVENPORT, Iowa — At a town hall meeting here last night, Rudolph W. Giuliani expanded upon his views of torture. Here is a transcript of the exchange.
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Linda Gustitus, who is the president of a group called […]

Sorry, Rudy. Maybe the Knicks will suddenly become competitive.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Yankee Fans Hate Rudy
By: Jane Hamsher
Firedoglake
I understand the true volume levels didn’t make it on TV, but during the Yankee game on Monday night Rudy Giuliani was resoundingly booed by New Yorkers:
For years, George Steinbrenner and right wing nutcases running the New York Yankees have subtly and overtly attempted to turn a nonpolitical sporting event […]

I’ve come up with this campaign poster…

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

but I still believe he looks more rational–and certainly happier– in drag.
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Images: (Giuliani) both are AP photos via huffingtonpost.com

Whether answering the cell phone is a Giuliani ruse or an Il Duce refusal to listen to his staff, we don’t need another King Korn.

Monday, October 1st, 2007

JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL
OPINION-Wall Street Journal
Rude Giuliani
If he wants voters to respect his privacy, he ought to show some respect for basic manners.
Monday, October 1, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
…Even members of Mr. Giuliani’s own staff are appalled at how he handled the incident in which he answered a phone call from his wife, Judith, […]

It is funny that it took a week for the explanation of the cell phone’s 911 reference.

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Giuliani cites Bible on personal life
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani compared the scrutiny of his personal life marked by three marriages to the biblical story of how Jesus dealt with an adulterous woman.

“I’m guided very, very often about, `Don’t judge others, lest you […]

My toying with the AP photo may be sophmoric, but not as sophomoric as the RudyJudy phone show.

Friday, September 21st, 2007

September 21, 2007
When Judith calls, Rudy answers
Watch Giuliani take a call from his wife during a speech to the NRA. Was it real or staged? You decide.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – When former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani gets a call from his wife Judith he takes it, even if when it happens in the middle […]

“I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world,”

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

…Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman who was on a separate visit.
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When I read this at HuffingtonPost,
I immediately thought of ANNIE HALL
in which Woody Allen’s character
recalls someone from his childhood.
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ADULT ALVY
(Pointing)
Look, look, there’s-there’s that one
over there, that’s […]

“We sound like…we don’t want black people to vote for us”

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Now, who in the heck could have formed that impression?
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Debate No-Shows Worry GOP Leaders
Candidates Are Urged to Attend Forums Sponsored by Minorities
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; A01

Key Republican leaders are encouraging the party’s presidential candidates to rethink their decision to skip presidential debates focusing on issues important to minorities, […]

My Chicago stringer, Vincenzo Kolchak writes…

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

“When the bloom wears off Fred’s shiny new candidacy, we can expect the Republicans to really start s*****g on each other (what else have they got?) and their war of attrition should really be a gruesome spectacle.
Who knows — maybe Ron Paul and Huckabee will be the only candidates left with a patina of civility […]

Well, he’s got the bald-faced lie part down.

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Here’s an exchange between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Wallace on Fox News.
You put the emergency response command center in the World Trade Center in 1997, even though your director of emergency management suggested — recommended that you not put it there because it had been a target in 1993. Why’d you do that?
GIULIANI: My director […]