Nobody talking about St. Rudy blowing off the ISG?

[americanstranger]

I looked around and saw nothing about this. The media is apparently in full-on 'ignore this story' mode. From today's Newsday:

Rudolph Giuliani's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel's top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.

Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war.

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He cited "previous time commitments" in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why -- the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani's lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months.

Giuliani failed to show up for a pair of two-day sessions that occurred during his tenure, the sources said -- and both times, they conflicted with paid public appearances shown on his recent financial disclosure. Giuliani quit the group during his busiest stretch in 2006, when he gave 20 speeches in a single month that brought in $1.7 million.

On one day the panel gathered in Washington -- May 18, 2006 -- Giuliani delivered a $100,000 speech on leadership at an Atlanta business awards breakfast. Later that day, he attended a $100-a-ticket Atlanta political fundraiser for conservative ally Ralph Reed, whom Giuliani hoped would provide a major boost to his presidential campaign.

The month before, Giuliani skipped the session to give the April 12 keynote speech at an economic conference in South Korea for $200,000, his financial disclosure shows.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-usrudy0619,0,7996765.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

This should be a HUGE story - 'America's Mayor' taking a powder from one of the most important Congressionally-mandated study groups in the past century so he can rake in a couple of mil on the rubber-chicken circuit.

Will the Corporate Media give St. 9/11 a pass on this? I'm betting they will.

- as

ON EDIT: Gotta give big kudos to Newsday for running this story. So far, they're the only major newspaper that's even gone near it.

[NewJeffCT]

1. It should be a huge story

However, it conflicts with the media's image of Rudy as being America's Mayor, the tough-talking terrorist fighter and, as you state, Saint 9/11.

[LSK]

2. this fucker is running as a terrorism expert

And the only fucking thing did is remained calm on 9/11 and attended a Yankees game a week later.

[babylonsister]

3. There's a couple of posts around, like here, but since it's history,

I don't know that much can be done about it. As for the media whores mentioning it, I haven't heard squat.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1139009