Letters to the Editor
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Who might have said it...
"Who was it that said of Giuliani: "He's a little guy looking for a balcony"? That sums him up perfectly."
I think it was Jimmy Breslin.
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The Thing Speaks for Itself
This translation of a latin legal term also says it all for the Mayor of Wig City (not to be confused with his former position as mayor of NYC). The more Giuliani is allowed to run on at the mouth, the better off we all will be. Sometimes a gift is so perfect one should just sit back and admire it.
This writer is one Republican who has been repulsed by Hizzoner since Day One, and as for his "Comforter-in-Chief" performance on 9/11, lemme just ask you this: Would anyone have done any less? Well except, perhaps, George W. Bush, who was tied up elsewhere (tongue-tied, apparently). No, I think I would have liked to see, oh, maybe John Lindsay's ghost do the honors that day, or maybe even an ectoplasmic Fiorello LaGuardia. They at least would not have been making mental notes on how to use the event later to build a platform (or is it a raft?) upon which to run for President following perhaps the worst President this nation has ever seen.
No, I think it might be better to just report any future Giuliani activities straight-up. That would be enough to gag any self-respecting American.
We have more important fish to fry: the ones who got us into this mess we've been living with for the past nearly 6-1/2 years. This horse won't get out of the gate.
Let The Thing speak. That's the worst thing we can do to him.
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Il Duce
My mom used to call him Il Duce, the Leader. His abrasive and destructive handling of everything, including race relations, made this city a tinderbox. He jettisoned a capable police chief for a toady (Kerik) is just another example of his judgment (or lack thereof). He stepped up to the plate on 9/11 but that is something any mayor would have done because it had to be done. Lives depended on it.
We don't need Rudy in the White House any more than we need Bush in the White House. Enough already. Let him strut and parade in front of the populace until some kid points at his crotch and asks why he's naked. His ambition surely is. Even his smile is anxious and pleading. Shudder.
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"A New Low for Conason"
I want to thank the headline writers at Salon for setting this one up. No title, not even a sarcastic/imitative one, could possibly be as good as, and as descriptive as, "A New Low for Conason." Which is really saying quite a lot.
When Joe Conason says something, and says it forcefully, you pretty much know that it is loaded. Either with his own partisan venom, or some untruth. In this case, both.
For, as much as Joe Conason might have wanted Rudy Giuliani to have predicted that a Democrat in the White House would mean more 9/11's, it just isn't true:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110009991
What is kind of shocking is that whatever echo chamber Joe Conason lives in, he clearly didn't get around to reading yesterday's online OpinionJournal.com expose' on this fabulist "news" report of Giuliani's comments. Joe Conason isn't merely a bomb-throwing political hack, he's an uninformed bomb-throwing political hack. Isn't there any adult editorial supervision for Joe Conason at Salon?
I just got through looking some more at the long thread discussing the Bill Moyers show on PBS. And the Salonistas were mostly unified in praising good, factual journalism over all. They didn't care that Moyers was a left-leaning partisan. What made Moyers better than Fox, was his careful attention to journalism standards. Or so it was said. So where does Joe "the Hit Man" Conason fit into that view of journalism?
Reading Joe Conason on-line makes me want to wash my hands after touching the keyboard.
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BARLOW AGAIN
What is RUDY still hiding?
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Let'sreview
A) He's bald. There've been no bald Presidents since Van Buren.
B) Like Van Buren he's ethnically outside the RNC mainstream. Martin Van spoke Dutch at home and Rudy's last name ends in a vowell.
C) He's more socially liberal than many Democrats. Or at least he was at one point. So if you think middle America is going to vote for him, you are wrong.
D) The precise point in time for a figurehead victim President is past. He might have been electable in 2004 if there were no Bush and no war.
E) A Republican candidate has to be rabidly insanely in favor of the Iraq war. Rudy is not.
F) A Republican from New York is suspect, generally. You never know when they might suddently become virgin raping Mexican marrying crack smoking Papists. I mean anyone from NYC will understand immediately that on September 10th, 2001, approximately every 'Conservative Republican' thought NYC was a modern day Sodom&Gemorrah full of blacks, foreigners, Jews, queers, feminists, liberals and did I mention gays? We all love abortions and non English speaking people. Didn't you get the memo?
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I do like the Nosferatu picture though
He's Ex Mayor Max Schreck, here to suck your blood and make you an undead zombie.
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On their watch
I read for the first time, somewhere, that this happened on his watch, I still haven't heard or read anywhere the fact that this happened not only bush and cheneys watch, but the republicant's, it appears they can only protect their own.
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What about that FIRST Fuel Explosion on Passenger Jet into Long Island Sound?
My recollection is that someone SAW a Missile, before the explosion.
Hush, Rudy
Hush.
MURDER or they Conspired to Commit Murder on is it merely the REPUBLICANS PROTECTING MY Country?
Guantanamo Bay openings still exist. "BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC"
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Giuliani, and Salon
Let's see...
Giuliani is a former U.S. Attorney... (that's the new idenitity politics group of choice now, right?)
He favors a woman's right to privacy in abortion law...
He is a lifelong New Yorker, who did much to make the city what it is now, in terms of stable finances and reduced crime...
He is something more than a mere moderate on gay rights...
He's been humorous and self-effacing on SNL...
And so the reason that he comes in for special, unusual, extreme hatred and hate-speech at Salon is -- what? The fact that he could be President? Or is this all not really any unusual level of hate-speech for the Salonistas? Is it their standard way of addressing Republicans? Should we understand that Republicans are to Salonistas as blacks are to Klansmen and Jews are to the Nazis (and now, Hamas...)?