Giuliani: I Misspoke About Ground Zero

[The Straight Story]

Giuliani: I Misspoke About Ground Zero

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I think I could have said it better," he told nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher. "You know, what I was saying was, 'I'm there with you.'"

The former New York mayor upset some firefighters and police officers when he said Thursday in Cincinnati that he was at ground zero "as often, if not more, than most of the workers."

"I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them," he told reporters at a Los Angeles Dodgers-Cincinnati Reds baseball game.



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[LostInAnomie]

1. He didn't misspeak.

He's just backpedaling because for once people actually scoffed and his gratuitous self-fellating about 9/11.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Two RW frauds - JudyAnnie and Gag-on-her.

They both suck. Each other.

[malaise]

3. Bwaaaaaaaaaah

Eat crow Rudy. He's sure pissing off working people. Keep it up Rudy!

[Maddy McCall]

4. And only dug his hole deeper.

And for that reason, I K/R this post.

[TwilightGardener]

5. I often "misspeak" too--that's when I say something offensive or factually incorrect

and then I have to fix it with damage control. That's why I don't run for President (among many other reasons).

[soothsayer]

6. oops, he must have thought all the real 911 workers were dead

[Hieronymus]

7. Before Rudy got around to apologizing, one of his spokemen said that

a bunch of Liberals were attacking Giuliani.