Ghoulinani is about to get "swiftboated" by a group of NY firefighters!

[jefferson_dem]

Check out "the gold bar" connection...

Bwhahahahaha.... :evilgrin:

:puke:


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The ongoing tension between the former New York City mayor and a number of firefighters from the Big Apple is spilling onto the Internet thanks to a new documentary being released later today. The 13-minute video, produced by the International Association of Firefighters, is a highly critical response to one of Giuliani's most important strengths — his performance on and around 9/11. It will debut this evening at a new Web site, Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend.

The images and words of the Mayor during and after the attacks earned him the title of "America's Mayor," made him one of the most popular figures in American politics over the past six years and helped catapult him into the top tier of the Republican presidential race. But long-simmering tensions between some firefighters and Giuliani are threatening that strength.

The IAFF video repeats criticisms of Giuliani's handling of the city's emergency responders that have been leveled at the mayor in the past. The video uses firefighters and others directly touched by the events of 9/11 to rehash some old gripes about the mayor's performance — that radio communication that failed during the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was never reliably fixed prior to 9/11, Giuliani's decision to scale back search efforts for fallen firefighters and his post-1993 decision to establish a command and control center in the one location, which had already been the target of a terrorist attack.

There is one charge leveled in the video which may be unfamiliar to many who have followed this spat. The documentary claims that once some $200 million in gold bars (belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia) had been recovered from the rubble, the order was suddenly given to remove firefighters from their efforts to recover the remains of fallen colleagues. It was a decision that has been among the most emotional of the disputes between some firefighters and the mayor. Giuliani and his supporters have long cited health and safety reasons for the decision but this video charges the mayor with being concerned more about recovering the gold than the remains of firefighters.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/11/politics/purehorserace/main3044822.shtml

Check out their website ---> http://www.rudy-urbanlegend.com/

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Except these stories are true.

Therefore I object to the idea that this is "swiftboating". That diminishes the fact that those assholes lied.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

2. I agree nt

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Not "swiftboating" just "truthtelling"

there is a big difference.

[jsamuel]

6. and important/relevent

[chelsea0011]

7. Agreed. You need to change the "swiftboat" comment.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

3. Karma sucks doesn't it, Rudy? nt

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Luv the title-- "Urban Legend" n/t

[endarkenment]

8. swiftboating: using total fabrications to launch an attack

that depends on a compliant media to catapult the attack, free of charge, without one bit of analysis as to its veracity.

The firefighters have valid complaints that will manage to reach page 14 level coverage at best.

[elizm]

9. Couldn't happen to a more deserving person. nt

[flpoljunkie]

10. Republicans...it's MONEY they love! Despicable Rudy and his Republican ilk!

[kath]

11. If it's truth, not lies, then it's NOT, I repeat NOT "swiftboating".

[smtpgirl]

12. I think he just did on Tweety