Giuliani: Worse than Bush (from Rolling Stone)

[NYCGirl]

wow...just wow.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14952564/giuliani_worse_than_bush/1

By Matt Taibbi


Rudy Giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days -- like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a "stuck pig," and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an outsize ego who doesn't even bother to conceal the fact that he's had a hard-on for the presidency since he was in diapers. In the media age, we can't have a hero humble enough to actually be one; what is needed is a tireless scoundrel, a cad willing to pose all day long for photos, who'll accept $100,000 to talk about heroism for an hour, who has the balls to take a $2.7 million advance to write a book about himself called Leadership. That's Rudy Giuliani. Our hero. And a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.

Yes, Rudy is smarter than Bush. But his political strength -- and he knows it -- comes from America's unrelenting passion for never bothering to take that extra step to figure shit out. If you think you know it all already, Rudy agrees with you. And if anyone tries to tell you differently, they're probably traitors, and Rudy, well, he'll keep an eye on 'em for you. Just like Bush, Rudy appeals to the couch-bound bully in all of us, and part of the allure of his campaign is the promise to put the Pentagon and the power of the White House at that bully's disposal.

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In his years as mayor -- and his subsequent career as a lobbyist -- Rudy jumped into bed with anyone who could afford a rubber. Saudi Arabia, Rupert Murdoch, tobacco interests, pharmaceutical companies, private prisons, Bechtel, ChevronTexaco -- Giuliani took money from them all. You could change Rudy's mind literally in the time it took to write a check. A former prosecutor, Giuliani used to call drug dealers "murderers." But as a lobbyist he agreed to represent Seisint, a security firm run by former cocaine smuggler Hank Asher. "I have a great admiration for what he's doing," Rudy gushed after taking $2 million of Asher's money.

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And let's not forget Bernie Kerik, Rudy's very own hairy-assed Sancho Panza, who was nixed as director of Homeland Security after investigators uncovered a gift he received from a construction firm with alleged mob ties that wanted to do business with Giuliani's administration. It is a testament to the monstrous breadth of Rudy's chutzpah that he used his post-9/11 celebrity to push his personal bagman for a post that milks the world's hugest security-contracts tit -- at the very moment when he himself was creating a security-services company.

MUCH MORE AT LINK

[Hissyspit]

1. "America's unrelenting passion for never bothering to take that extra step to figure shit out."

Oh, yeah...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14952564/giuliani_worse_than_bush/1

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Matt Taibbi is the heir apparent...

To The Good Doctor, just without the cheesy comestibles and the bats.

[yurbud]

4. if it doesn't fit on a bumper sticker, most can't be bothered. that's why thy let Rush

do their codgytating fur 'em.

[speedoo]

2. That's our Rudy!

RS is doing to this phony exactly what he deserves. He is truly evil.

[glowing]

5. Wow, the whole article is really well written and on key with

how slimey Rudy really is. He actually makes me more queesy than Bush. With Bush, he's stupid. His minions do the work. But Rudy is hands on slimey.

[Blueberry_raspberry]

6. excellent article. If Guiliani becomes the nominee he'll get a whole lot more scrutiny. nt.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Loved this article.

Thanks for posting NYCGirl!

Love Taibbi's sassy writing style and he NAILED Giuliani.

I'd R but am too late so can only K. :)

[calimary]

8. Did you see one of the comments that included a great quote from Jimmy

Breslin describing rudy:

A small man in search of a balcony.

[Bryn]

9. Frank Serpico Doesn't Like Rudy at all

I watched Frank Serpico biography on A&E last night and was expressed with his story so I checked up on him over the internet and found his own website. He blogs. He hates the Bush Administration with passion. Not surprised because of what he did when he was NYPD, turned in bad cops, hates corruption still. He strongly dislikes Rudy. I wish I could copy & paste what he wrote about Rudy, but cannot remember which dates. I will try to find it then give you a link as I am unsure if I could copy & paste here without permission.

[NYCGirl]

10. Kick