Breaking: Rudy Spent 29 Hours At Ground Zero In Three Months
August 17, 2007 -- 8:24 AM EST // //
Twenty-nine hours.
That's the total amount of time Rudy Giuliani actually spent at Ground Zero in three months following the attacks, according to a report in this morning's New York Times.
Rudy, you'll recall, recently caused a huge controversy by saying he'd spent as much or more time at Ground Zero than "most" of the 9/11 recovery workers. These new revelations about his time at the site are almost certain to raise yet more questions about his efforts to run for President partly on his performance after 9/11 -- and to further enrage the firefighters, cops and rescue workers who despise him for those efforts and accuse him of falsely lionizing his own 9/11 performance.
Can we call Rudy's recovery-worker insult a gaffe now? Note to pundits who've largely ignored this, despite it being Rudy's worst political misstep to date -- any interest in this story yet?
The news is kind of buried in the Times piece, but it's big:
A complete record of Mr. Giuliani’s exposure to the site is not available for the chaotic six days after the attack, when he was a frequent visitor. But an exhaustively detailed account from his mayoral archive, revised after the events to account for last-minute changes on scheduled stops, does exist for the period of Sept. 17 to Dec. 16, 2001. It shows he was there for a total of 29 hours in those three months, often for short periods or to visit locations adjacent to the rubble. In that same period, many rescue and recovery workers put in daily 12-hour shifts.
That's roughly an average of 10 hours a month. Ahhh -- the sweet sound of real reporting.
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