Giuliani calls Christie's 4-day gridlock a "prank", 9/11 now downgraded to "horseplay"

[PeaceNikki]

Former NYC 9/11 Mayor 9/11 Rudy 9/11 Giuliani is defending his old pal Chris Christie, saying that the New Jersey governor and future former Republican front-runner is definitely not a bully, and that the closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge last September was merely a “stupid political prank that backfired.” Stuff happens, and once in a while, when you leave a bucket of water perched on a cracked-open door, it snarls traffic for four days and delays paramedics from getting to a 91-year-old woman who dies later. God, people, have you no sense of humor?

Giuliani explained that once in a while, aides just go off and do stuff on their own, and you need to rein them in, but it’s really no biggie:

“Politically stupid things, political pranks that turn bad, all that other stuff, every administration — don’t tell me this doesn’t happen in the Obama administration, the Clinton administration, the Bush administration.”
Or selecting a prime terrorist target as the location for your terror attack command center. Talk about a boner!

And if anyone knows the difference between a prank and political retribution, it’s the mayor who famously tried to completely defund the Brooklyn Museum of Art because he thought one painting in a short-term exhibition was offensive to Catholics.

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[ScreamingMeemie]

1. They really don't even bother to sound like they understand the common man at all

anymore do they?

[PeaceNikki]

6. Nor do they want to. They want the common man to die.

[napkinz]

2. a stupid political prank? horseplay?

This from the man who PUT THE EMERGENCY COMMAND CENTER INSIDE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER!!!!!! (and was warned years before 9/11 that doing so was unwise)

[Beaverhausen]

3. I assume that's a joke, right?

satire? The Onion?

[PeaceNikki]

5. Nope. Video in link.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/giuliani_defends_christie

[bigdarryl]

4. Of coarse he would say something that stupid he himself

Was a bully Mayor who was kind of like a Christie these rethugs like shit like this

[valerief]

7. Iraq War was just "boys being boys". nt

[malaise]

8. Sure - it's how ReTHUGs view ordinary people's lives

insignificant as long as they are having fun punishing real or perceived enemies.

No wonder their party is imploding - it serves no useful purpose- it's all about greed and power.

[okaawhatever]

9. Typical GOP defense. Downplay anything bad and then use the bought and paid for media to repeat

the comments incessantly. Kind of like the candidate's son who was accused of some sexual crime and the response was "youthful indiscretion" except he was 42. There are a bunch more like that, but you get the idea.

Ignore, obfuscate and hurl accusations. They are only doing this because we no longer have a free media. I say reform the media laws. Back to where they were when politicians were called out on their b.s.

[surrealAmerican]

10. He sure sounds like he's hinting ...

... about similar actions he took while in office.

[spanone]

11. FUCK giuliani...there's not a republican i have LESS respect for.

FUCK HIM

[PeaceNikki]

12. sing it, sister

Or brother. Sister was just in my cache so I went with it.

[spanone]

13. k&r....bwahahahahahaaa

big ed played a clip of giuliani on the mourning joe show saying how honest christie was yesterday, unlike what we have in the white house.

FUCK HIMMMMMMM

[shenmue]

14. And how many people could have died if ambulances couldn't get to them?

What an idiot.

[frylock]

15. "aides just go off and do stuff on their own"

you know, kinda like when your chief of police uses the apartment set up for emergency personnel needing a break from digging through the rubble of the WTC as a pad to fuck some right-wing publisher. these things happen.

[freshwest]

16. Fits the GOP version of public service. As usual, it's in reverse. They enjoy kicking the public

around because they see themselves as far above them, the public exists to serve them, not the other way around.