Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

[rusty charly]

Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger's way. The Republican frontrunner is campaigning for president by evoking that visual at every campaign stop, and he apparently believes it's a picture worth thousands of nights in the White House.

Giuliani has been leading the Republican pack for seven months, and predictions that the party's evangelicals would turn on him have so far proven hollow. The religious right appears as gripped by the Giuliani story as the rest of the country.

Giuliani isn't shy about reminding audiences of those heady days. In fact he hyperventilates about them on the stump, making his credentials in the so-called war on terror the centerpiece of his campaign. His claims, meanwhile, have been met with a media deference so total that he's taken to complimenting "the good job it is doing covering the campaign." Opponents, too, haven't dared to question his terror credentials, as if doing so would be an unpatriotic bow to Osama bin Laden.

Here, then, is a less deferential look at the illusory cloud emanating from the former mayor's campaign:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,77463,6.html

[AtomicKitten]

1. The GOP field is wonderfully hopelessly flawed.

And Rudy has much to answer for. Just ask the NY firefighters.

[rusty charly]

2. like the ones in "sicko", f'rinstance?

[AtomicKitten]

4. in the flesh

their stories are soul-crushing ...

[roamer65]

3. Anyone who would appoint Norman "Bomb Iran" Podhoretz...

to their campaign staff is dangerous in my opinion.

[C_U_L8R]

5. As someone who was also covered in soot that morning

all i got to say is "so what".

Rudy did not do squat that day,
did not do squat after that day
and certainly did not do squat
any of the days beforehand.

Those firefighters...
the ones with the faulty radios.
Thank Rudy for that.

Oh there's so much more to thank Rudy for :sarcasm:

Rudy was a clown on 911... a clown !
It's quite unbelievable that the whole world
has fallen for his personal image bullshit
and does not see what a total clown he is.