Waaa! Waaa! Waaa! NY Post: KERIK'S CRY OVER RUDY

[wndycty]

KERIK'S CRY OVER RUDY
LAMENTS LOSING HIS PAL
By AUSTIN FENNER

June 19, 2007 -- Disgraced ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik can't stop crying over his fizzled friendship with former BFF Rudy Giuliani.

"I accept the distance created by Giuliani. I understand it, but inside, it's killing me," Kerik said.

"It's like dying a slow death, watching him have to answer for my mistakes," the former top cop said of the ex-New York mayor-turned-presidential-candidate.

Kerik dished up the surprisingly frank comments in a dark, F-bomb-infused interview in the August edition of Best Life magazine.
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"There are times I'm so f- - -ing depressed, I don't want to work. I don't want to get out of bed. You go to sleep, you wake up in a f- - -ing sweat."
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06192007/news/regionalnews/keriks_cry_over_rudy_regionalnews_austin_fenner.htm

[rasputin1952]

1. Damn...is Kerick in love w/Rudy and got spurned after a

whirlwind romance?

Hell hath no fury, as a police commissioner sprurned.

Other than the fact that Kerick was a huge bomb as PC in NYC, and he showed himself to be little more than incredibly inept, what else has he ever done?

[NewJeffCT]

2. Wasn't he a good "yes" man for Rudy?

I think that is one requisite for being a confidante of Rudy, right?

[rasputin1952]

16. Yes...that is all there is to it...

My mom had a friend who retired from the NYPD as a Lt. Every cop and firefighter hated Guiliani, still do AFAIC. He was despised because he always jumped on the "credit Express" when something went right, usually because of an underling doing something right, as opposed to following Guiliani. But if a "Rudy Duty" came down and blew up in everyone's face, he'd blame anyone but himself. the man is an arrogant pig, and the bane of anyone who worked in the City.

He was instrumental in closing down Firehouses, cutting back police patrols and insisted on having full control of everything, especially when he had no idea what the Department did. He is, and always will be a dud.

As for 9-11, that was right up his alley, go in, talk a lot of crap, and them leave people to die and become ill later...x(

Kerick worked out fine, till he was exposed as a know-nothing hack, just like "Heck of a job Brownie".

[Gabi Hayes]

5. our man in Iraq. Bush nominated him to head the Dept. of Homeland Security after this:

just a few highlights, from his aborted role as ''Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq and Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy to Iraq, L. Paul Bremer.''

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=2058

** Kerik spent $1.2 billion to train 35,000 troops in Jordan even though France and Germany offered to provide training for free. He also bought $20 million worth of rifles and revolvers from Jordan when the weapons could've been obtained for far less in Iraq.

** Kerik hired Iraqi policemen without background checks who later turned out to be hardened criminals. He re-hired policeman formerly employed by Saddam Hussein and bragged of training 37,000 new officers. Currently, roughly a quarter of the force Kerik left in place--a total of 30,000 officers--have been or will soon be fired by the US government and paid $60 million in severance payments, according to the far-from-antiwar New York Post.

** A few weeks before leaving, Kerik announced a plan to train 28,000 Iraqi officers at a US base in Hungary. A week later, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgessy denied ever discussing an arrangement with Kerik and expressed shock at reading of the details for the first time in the press, according to the International Herald Tribune. The US Embassy in Budapest soon confirmed Medgessy's version. Kerik has never publicly explained what he was talking about.

[rasputin1952]

17. I'm sure he made a bundle off of those deals the guy is as

corrupt as they come. Not surprising he'd have dealings like this...x(

[underpants]

3. "And let's not forget Bernie Kerik, Rudy's very own hairy-assed Sancho Panza"

THIS is a fantastic read. Highly recommend it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14952564/giuliani_worse_than_bush/2

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.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. aaaaahhhhhh....I was hoping that was going to be a Taibbi story!

nobody more enjoyable, whether he's skewering Thomas Friedmanunit, Joe Klein, or any of the rest of the M$M that has been the PRIME cause of the ruination of our political system over the last 27 years, starting with Reagan (see "On Bended Knee"). Actually start with what they did to the admittedly naive/feckless Jimmy Carter.

in case you have some time, and haven't seen this:

WIMBLEHACK!
The search for America's worst campaign journalist has begun.
By Matt Taibbi
[e-mail]

http://www.nypress.com/17/40/news&columns/feature.cfm


THESE LAST FEW WEEKS of the presidential election campaign season are turning out to be not a whole lot different than the last peaceful hours before a prostatectomy. That is, a brief moment of fatalistic calm before something painful and unavoidable, something you were dreading when it was far off, but something that is easier to face now that you know it will all soon be over.



The end is in sight. That much we should be thankful for. But that's about all we have to be thankful for, as this Bush-Kerry fiasco is turning out to be one of the greatest and most prolonged insults to human dignity the world has ever seen.



It is hard to imagine anything more meaningless, underhanded, vapid, shameless, pointlessly vicious, embarrassing, uninspiring, degrading and even unentertaining than this billion-dollar daily exchange of sneering teenage accusations between the Bush and Kerry camps. And it is hard to imagine anything more galling than the unspoken media subtext of the election—the idea that this slime-fest somehow represents an important moment, a landmark memory, in our own lives. The implication that we're such losers that we would actually want to watch this crap 24 hours a day for 15 or 16 months is almost more appalling than the behavior of the candidates themselves.

Though we're tempted to blame the politicians, it's time to dig deeper. It's time to blame the press corps that daily brings us this unrelenting symphony of horseshit and never comes within 1000 miles of an apology for any of it. And it's time to blame the press not only as a class of people, but as individuals. We must brand anyone who puts his name or his face on credulous campaign coverage an eternal Enemy of the State. Hopefully, over time, this will have a deterrent effect.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. now, on to the Rolling Stone story. thank you so much

[Gabi Hayes]

8. Rudy: ''a once-chubby kid who grew up hiding tittie pictures from nuns.''

Giuliani has good stage presence, but his physical appearance is problematic -- virtually neckless, all shoulders and forehead and overbite, with a hunched-over, Draculoid posture that recalls, oddly enough, George W. Bush, the vestigial stoop of a once-chubby kid who grew up hiding tittie pictures from nuns. Not handsome, not cuddly, if he wins this thing it's going to be by projecting toughness and man-aura. But all presidential candidates have to play the baby-kissing game, and here is an early chance for Rudy to show his softer side.

[underpants]

10. LOL Taibbi's brackets

http://www.nypress.com/17/40/news&columns/feature.cfm

[Gabi Hayes]

12. have you read all the parts....there are at least four. and the photos

which don't work here....have to go to the links...are hilarious, too.

the entire serialized version is included in his book, Spanking the Monkey, on the 2004 campaign, and is WELL worth reading

he's trying (a bit too hard, but still welcome) to fill Hunter Thompson's shoes. somebody needs to



best campaign book ever written:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, '72

[underpants]

14. I have it printed out

I think I will go find that book.

Taibbi is awesome

[tanyev]

4. Oh, poor Bernie. Is he strumming your pain with his fingers?

This is for you, Bern. :cry:

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him, to listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes

I felt all flushed with fever, embarassed by the crowd
I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on

He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there
But he was there, this stranger, singing clear and loud

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

[Gabi Hayes]

9. ''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.

[gatorboy]

11. Chris Matthews and Kerik should start a support group.

"Why doesn't he love us back??" *sniff*

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Tweety's already on the rebound. haven't you heard?

''Does have sex appeal? … Gene, do you think there’s a sex appeal for this guy, this sort of mature, older man, you know? … Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man’s shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of — a little bit of cigar smoke? You know, whatever.''

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/matthews-probes-thompsons-smell-sex-appeal

[gatorboy]

15. Good for Tweety!

No point in drawing out these relationships that don't work out.

[Orsino]

18. Seems stupid for him to try to accept the blame for failure...

...when Rudy's entire campaign hinges on his being perceived as actually having succeeded.

[librechik]

19. "Most of all I miss the way he gave me the Big O like nobody else

Rudy, call me!"

[Javaman]

20. so Kerik how does that bus tire feel rolling over your head? nt