USA Today hailed Giuliani as "hero of 9/11," omitted Kerik controversy...

[bridgit]

'Summary: A USA Today article referred to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a "hero of 9/11." But, while mentioning a leaked memo in which Giuliani's campaign staff set out potential areas of vulnerability, the USA Today article did not note the memo's reference to a particular scandal relating to terrorism preparedness.

On February 1, USA Today reported on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's (R) potential presidential candidacy in a front-page article that bore the headline "Giuliani: Can hero of 9/11 win over his own party?" The article, which said that Giuliani was "dubbed 'America's mayor' after he led New York City's response to the Sept. 11 attacks," discussed a leaked memo that details Giuliani's campaign plans, but omitted the memo's mention of a scandal relating to preparedness for terrorism.'

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702020007

[NoAmericanTaliban]

1. Giuliani sure comes with a lot of luggage lets hope

the media will start focusing on that, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that. The fundies will vote for him if they believe he can beat Clinton - no matter what his social views. Now if the
Ayatollah Robinson decides to run that could split off some fundies.

[dysfunctional press]

2. the msm has decided for us that nov. 2008 will be a guliani vs. clinton election.

nt

[UTUSN]

3. Ah, I love KERIK threads!!1 (Judith REGAN)

SOME of her men (NOTE, the 4th image is an abstract rendering of LIMBOsevic). LIMBOsevic is included because she published his first two, ghost written by John FUND (at least the first one) books:



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http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm (by DUer Gloria: )

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

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And I (the poster) will claim credit for insight. Back when KERIK's book for REGAN was debutting, she hosted him on her Faux interview show. His tale was of his missing mother, who inexplicably abandoned him as a tot. She never showed up for a custody hearing. The premise of the book was that this tough uber-male had this hole in his heart, thereby setting the pants on fire of tough wingnuts of all genders. As she probed him about the book, she and KERIK locked smouldering, HOT gazes. Once the mother-thing was done, she moved on to his heroics (which were what?) on 9-11. She asked WHERE HE WAS when the planes hit. Without missing an eye-lock, he said, "Stepping out of the shower." She swallowed and held a long breath. The image of nekkid KERIK was plainly etched on the Faux camera lens during the LONG pause. He added, "In my office." Another LONG pause. He added, "After WORKING OUT." There was another swallow. I suspected BACK THEN that something was cooking between publisher and author, and it weren't spaghetti. Only 2 or 3 years later, when KERIK's many other past deeds floated to the surface like dead bodies did it become official that there was indeed WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE between the two, that the two of them alternated their WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions with WORKING OUT together, that he had used NYPD to track down what happened to his mother, that he used NYPD to provide security for his personal WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions, that the WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVENEST was a city-paid apartment near the WTC intended as a rest site for rescue and recovery workers. The REGAN-KERIK Faux interview was pure musk in the air. Why don't Shrub's handlers hire some of US for intelligence work?

[bridgit]

5. ewww, John Fund...seriously too prissy/goofy for me...

:puke:

[Swamp Rat]

4. If Giuliani wins the repuke nomination, Kerik just might turn up again.

Giuliani has a few skeletons in his baggage. ;)

[CJCRANE]

6. Repubs are desperate

if a socially liberal ex-mayor is their best candidate.

Giuliani looked good on 9/11 principally because * ran and hid.

[AndyA]

7. Let us not forget the REAL heroes of 9/11: the first responders.

Many of whom are now dying from exposure to toxic substances at ground zero. An area which was supposed to be safe, according to Guiliani, among others, not to exclude Bush's slime bitch head of the EPA at the time.

[zbdent]

8. Why do people forget how he ran into the WTC building, emerging

mere fractions of a second before the last of the building crumbled to street level ... and why is the media supressing the picture of him carrying three orphans and a gold cross as he spurts out of the cloud of dust ?

;)

[no_hypocrisy]

9. You aren't a "hero" if you're only doing your job duties. n/t

[HamdenRice]

10. The "ferret issue" will keep Giuliani from getting elected!

Remember, there are ferrets in Rudy's closet!