Letters to the Editor
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Joan Walsh sinks to the McCarthy Method: Guilt by Association.
Want to destroy Rudy? Just do what Joan does. Reach into that old, reliable Joseph McCarthy handbook and play the guilt by association game. It’s easy! In this case, you simply link Monsignor Alan Placa’s name with Rudy’s and – TA DA! – Giuliani suddenly prefers the company of child molesters! It doesn’t matter that Placa is accused but not convicted. It doesn’t even matter that Rudy would undoubtedly terminate any friendship like that in a New York minute if it were ever proven true. Not to mention taking a nice long shower or two or three.
All that matters is that Joan gets to smear Rudy by calling him Monsignor Placa’s “best friend.” Hmmm… Joan, what’s your source for the “best friend” reference? Did you bother sourcing it yourself or are you just cutting and pasting something you read somewhere else?
Because NPR online says that businessman Peter J. Powers, of Powers Global Strategies, has been Giuliani's best friend since they were boys in Bishop Loughlin High School in Brooklyn.
And New York Magazine says Giuliani's best friend is businessman Elliot Cuker. AND, in that same article, Rudy himself has fun telling us that some of his best friends are “drag queens.”
But, alas, you can always leave it to Joan to take the low road. How pathetic.