I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
No punches pulled there. Left cross, right jab, left jab, right undercut, overhand left.
Go Breslin.
Breslin rocks. I have to read Newsday every day for my job, and it's probably the only daily in NYC that could fairly be described as "liberal". In that way, it's the proverbial breath of fresh air.
Giuliani also had a flunkey, Bernard Kerik, rush on television and say, so earnestly, that the Bush commerical was appropriate. Kerik was a Giuliani campaign chauffeur who became police commissioner.
Kerik also was hired to be train the iraqi police, but he bailed before the job ws done. surprise, surprise.
Molesting the dead. Well said!
The harshest critique of Guiliani I've seen.
to borrow a quote I've always loved, from Ehrenstein:
Only Bush would dig up a corpse and fuck it to score cheap political points.
Molesting the dead. Well said!
The harshest critique of Guiliani I've seen.
"How marvelous!"
A great article from a great American.
Maybe Breslin can ask Sir Rudy what his position on the Gay Marriage Amendement is. Will Sir Rudy be as honest as Bloomberg?
Oh, yeah. Go, Jimmy. Get him. Go for the throat.
yes, "to be train"
Rudy was on the Daily Show and Jon Stewart asked him, his opinion was that gay marriage is fine so long as it's legal.
Giuliani also had a flunkey, Bernard Kerik, rush on television and say, so earnestly, that the Bush commerical was appropriate. Kerik was a Giuliani campaign chauffeur who became police commissioner
Kerik has become a Designated Liar for Bush. It is he who continues to propagate the connection between Saddam and 9/11.
Giuliani will be on MTP sunday.
you dont get journalist like breslin anymore...due to the fact that it is no longer acceptable for working class people to start in the mailroom and work their way up the ladder...
the 'pekingise of the press' are all graduates of brown, yale etc. and most come from upper middle class backgrounds...
our culture has been gentrified..
One small correction of Breslin: WTC 7 (the emergency centre) was not exactly 'high in the sky', tho' it was in WTC Plaza.
But I see his general gist. Giuliani too got a lot of PR mileage out of 9/11, altho' he didn't use it for political purposes half as much as Bush did, having achieved most of what he wanted to achieve prior to that point. I wonder how Giuliani's playing to NYC right now?
Until I read the Breslin piece, I didn't understand why some people were eager to have Giuliani replace Cheney as Bush's running mate. Now I get it: He'd be a perfect match!
Ouch! Takes the post- Sept.11th luster off Rudy, doesn't it?
He should have known better than to back Bush on this, the hypocrite.
These guys aren't too smart.
What happened to Rudy is seriously depressing. He used to be so independent, even supporting a Dem (Cuomo) for Governor.
After 9/11 calmed down and he was out of office, I think he realized he still had political ambitions, that he could aim high, and he became a partisan hack to ingratiate himself with the White House. Come November, he may come to regret the choice: the Republican party is going to be needed new leadership and new direction, and he could have been part of that. McCain seems the best positioned now.
We are going to win in November, and big. I'm all for a quality opposition, so its going to be depressing to see how many formerly honorable folks on the Repub side of the aisle are going to go down with this ship.
WTC 7 (the emergency centre) was not exactly 'high in the sky
I was living in Paris during 9-11, and there are a couple of buildings not quite as tall as WTC7. The tower in Montparnasse, and one or two in La Defense (the business area a little away from traditional Paris) are about 40-50 storeys high, maybe a little less than WTC7. I went and had a look at those buildings, and imagined them toppling down. Even though they are less than half the size of WTC1 & 2, they are nevertheless quite immense.
I bow to your superior knowledge, Magnum: I was never in NY _before_ the tragic events.
Completely OT, but I can't wait to finish reading the whole thing:
Big Media Meets The Bloggers
A history of how the Trent Lott quote made it to mainstream media. Gobs of Atrios in here. It's a .pdf, and it's huge, but it's #18 on Daypop this morning.
Breslin for WH Press Secretary!
ronjohnson, you get 'em, but they're in small papers, endangered species themselves, working their asses off for no pay while highly paid editors and TV heads go on Poynter's site and bitch about how journalists are "out of touch with the common man" as if their own six-figure salaries and parties with Colin Powell had nothing to do with it. And if they apply to larger news organizations, they're told their "education" is inadequate, as if not wasting thousands of dollars on Harvard when you can go to state school and get an equally shitty journalism education there is some kind of insanity. Fuck the news executives. Fuck them sideways with a chainsaw.
Breslin for press secretary. This He has plenty of money and unlimited personal cheapness. is a masterful sentence.
A.
Breslin.
Because he has a pair.
hey don s
as a new yorker, i know well that rudy was always:
a racist, an autocrat and an incredible hypocrite...for his entire term he refused to meet with any black or latino community leaders...
..he had one thing going for him:
fascismo...
Ouch. That's GOTTA hurt.
So how popular is Breslin anyway? Do a lot of people respect and admire him? Or his he seen more as a partisan flack? I just don't know much about him.
So Rudy will be with Fat Tim on Sunday? I'll bet Breslin's article is never mentioned.
And, I'll also bet Breslin doesn't go to many parties that the Kool Kids attend.
As the rest of the press sinks far beneath the level of Maurine Watkins, Breslin continues to give journalism a good name.
On my visits to New York I've always flown in via New Jersey (thus avoiding the unspeakable horror of JFK airport and the L.I.E.) I would catch the bus to Newark airport right in front of the WTC.
Does anyone have or know of the existence of video showing the interview Bush gave where he mocked Carla Fay Tucker as she was about to be executed?
I think it would be more than appropriate to show him mock her, then display that trademark smirk. The video stops playing and the camera focuses in on the smirk.
Then they should display the Merriam-Webster's dictionary definition of 'smirk':
" To smile in an affected or smug manner: SIMPER "
Then they can start a kaleidascope of other scenes of Bush getting off on some events and zero-in on the smirks.
Then the screen can show that whenever you see Bush smirk like this it means he's getting satisfaction from what he is doing and saying.
They can then finish by panning to the word 'Narcissist'
I'm looking forward to seeing exactly how 'bold' the Democrats' adds are this year. Will they really and truly have the balls to admit the truth?
MYOB'
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Give 'em hell, Jimmy.
breslin is a national treasure! when i saw him at a protest for "not in our name", he was all over unlike the nyt who never mentioned the protest in greenwich a month ago when flyboy came to town. don't know how they missed us since you couldn't leave the hotel driveway w/o tripping into us.
my wife is roaming the streets of the city today with the same anti-rudy button she bought at an anti-rudy protest six or seven years ago. this guy is a human blood sucker.
kerik is a goon -how many iraqi policemen have been killed since he flew in as the second coming of rambo and got the hell out? 300, 350???
there better be a special place in hell for il duce and kerik. pataki too...
MYOB - I don't think there is any videotape of that - it happened when Tucker Carlson was interviewing Bush, and Tucker related the story on TV, including how shocked he was - which he said must have registered on his face at the time, because Bush then dropped the smirk.
However, there is footage of Bush smirking about another miscarriage of Texas justice - that occured in the GOP debate in California during the 2000 campaign, and was broadcast live coast to coast. The question was about the man who was convicted after his attorney slept through his trial. Bush's first response was the smirk, as if it was all a big joke; he then went on to say that there was nothing wrong with the justice system in Texas and that he was sure no one there had ever been wrongfully convicted.
"Does anyone have or know of the existence of video showing the interview Bush gave where he mocked Carla Fay Tucker as she was about to be executed?"
There's a video? Tucker Carlson interviewed Bush for Talk Magazine (I believe) and that's where the quote came from. Even Carlson was shocked.
Damn.
when i visited manhattan, i did not go see the WTC cause skyscrapers do not interest me, but they were a looming presence in my photos.
when i went back, i did make a pilgrimage, but to see what is still there.
george be damned!
Give 'em hell, Jimmy.
Q: Was Pearl Harbor the defining peak of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency?
Scorpio
http://scorpio.typepad.com/eccentricity/
how sweet it is! he is!!
YEAH BABY!
Re: 7 World Trade and the Emergency Center -
I would say the Emergency Center at 7 World Trade was "high in the sky" - it was above the 20th Floor of that building, and there was controversy when that place was chosen by Giuliani (as a political favor to the owner). Many voices raised questions as to why an important emergency center would not be in a more protected place (like a basement, perhaps) and one that would make elevator access necessary. A large brokerage had a trading floor there, and moved out. The owner bribed Giuliani to put the center there, because he was having trouble renting it.
The irony is that the only reason 7 World Trade came down on Sept 11 was because of the Center - the excess diesel fuel in the base of the building (there to keep the elevators and the Center going in case of a power failure) is what brought it down. The extreamly expensive center could not be used in the next few weeks, hindering NYC's recovery. All of this was Giuliani's fault, and the media barely mentioned it, or the crooked deal that led to it. Real estate rules this town, and the NY Times kisses up constantly.
Those of us working in lower Manhattan are now watching the new 7 World Trade building go up - the steel framework is already above the 10th Floor.
And Giuliani still gets a free ride from the press.
Only Bush would dig up a corpse and fuck it to score cheap political points.
That's total bullshit, renato. His dad would do it, too.
In fact, he did. Willie Horton, right? And Breslin mentions the other incident--which outraged Breslin at the time--in which Bush the Elder used a dead cop's badge as a prop in a pro-death-penalty-elect-Pataki-fest. I'm pretty sure Jeb, Marvin, or Neil would engage in political necrophilia, too, given half a chance. Let's not forget that Jeb was willing to employ a comatose woman at the expense of her family's anguish in order to score a few points. So, here's Ehrenstein's assertion, corrected:
Only a Bush would dig up a corpse and fuck it to score cheap political points.
I can't take Breslin seriously. He misspelled "Oprah".
Oooooh! Survivor is on!!!
And let's be clear. If we really had anything approaching a liberal media, we would have seen enough of these stories in 2000 (1994, anyone?) to have knocked WWWonderboy out of the race before New Hampshire.
Go, Jimmy B!
And let's be clear. If we really had anything approaching a liberal media, we would have seen enough of these stories in 2000 (1994, anyone?) to have knocked WWWonderboy out of the race before New Hampshire.
Go, Jimmy B!
Who does Oprah look like without makeup?
Anyone? Anyone?
LL Cool J.
I beg all of you to e-mail Newsday and praise the Breslin column. Please!
Beleive me, they will listen. I wrote in praising a previous Breslin article and Newsday called me back to talk about the letter, and said they might print it.
Keep in mind that Breslin can't go on forever, and besides the fact that he deserves all the kudos, letters praising Breslin may influence Newsday in terms of grooming and
supporting his successor.
Just go to Newsday.com and it'll hook you right up. Please! They are listening.
Wow am I the only lefty who didn't like that article? It started out great but that whole guliani thing sounded like an incoherent coulteresque rant... turned sharply left of course.
Maybe it just lost me somewheres.
I stand corrected, Brian...
Miles, I used to like Guliani until the whole adultery/divorce situation.
The bible tells us divorce is wrong, so I can't support him.
Now if only he'd been caught going down on Barney Frank.
That would be something I could support.
But 'divorce'?
Never.
MYOB'
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This is a great column, the kind of thing the editors of the Boston Globe thought they were going to get from Barnicle, a Boston Blue Blood's idea of the common man. Too bad he turned out to be a cheap immitation. A total fraud.
How come the same press who had the screaming fantods over Monica, a fairly sedate affiar carried on in private, are silent on Randy Rudy's rumpy-rompy? It was a lot more raunchy than anything Clinton ever did.
Only a Bush would dig up a corpse and fuck it to score cheap political points.
Unfortunately, that's still not quite accurate. Gulliani's own tendencies toward necrophilia are perhaps best illustrated by the Patrick Dorismond case. Dorismond, a Haitian-American, was unarmed when he was shot by police during a 'buy and bust' sting operation. Approached by undercover officers trying to buy pot, Dorismond became hostile, not because he knew they were cops -- he didn't -- but becuase he wanted to keep drug dealing out of his neighborhood.
Gulliani reacted to the tragedy by unsealing Dorismond's juvie records (he'd been arrested on drug charges as a teenager) and smearing his name in the press, snarkily commenting that Dorismond "was no altar boy." Besides being untrue (Dorismond had in fact served as an altar boy at his church), the implication that anyone who had not been squeaky clean their entire life deserved to be gunned down outraged the community.
The ads ought to outrage, but how can anyone who has been awake the last four years be surprised?
They already raided the tomb to start an unwinnable and unnecessary war (although the graves from that exercise must never be acknowledged). It will be fascinating in a sick way to see what developes as they spend freely from their unlimited account of cash, crassness, cheapness and corruption.
I'm not a rabid Kerry supporter (tab me an "anybody but Bush" Deaniac) but where the Busheviks can point to the dead for their inspiration, Kerry can point to a living James Rassmann whom he saved while his riverboat was underfire.
Between Breslin and Newsday's vastly superior coverage of the Plame investigation (among other things) it is clear that we have a new paper of record.
It is, of course, only human (er, institutional) nature. A sense of self-importance --> complacency.
And should we really blame the Busheviki for basing all of their legitimacy on 9/11? After all, Stalin did the same after WWII, never mind the 20 million dead. Of course that was the most brutal war in history not, as one recent excerpt in Harper's recently put it, a war on an abstract noun. And they won (sort of). And it was a real totalitarian dictatorship.
What happened to Rudy is seriously depressing. He used to be so independent, even supporting a Dem (Cuomo) for Governor.
He's always been a whore. When he was the US Attorney for the District of Manhattan, it was said that the most dangerous place in America was the spot between him and a camera. More than a few mafiosi beat charges because he was more interested in generating headlines than in building cases.
I'm not a rabid Kerry supporter (tab me an "anybody but Bush" Deaniac) but where the Busheviks can point to the dead for their inspiration, Kerry can point to a living James Rassmann whom he saved while his riverboat was underfire.
Jeebus
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Absolutely right! The only thing Bush every saved is his own ass. And for that, he often relied on the help from his Daddy's sychophant rich friends.
Kind of puts a damper on that Rudy as VP idea.
Breslin has earned his NYC stripes. He has integrity and longevity. The only thing that keeps me from paroxysms at getting "older" is that if you're smart, honest, and old you can say damn well whatever you please, and tell the lying apologists to "sod off"!!
Bush Ad = "Political Necrophilia"
is it me or have democrats been extra feisty lately, they don't let the gop get away with anything.
I don't know where they've been, but I'm glad they're here. Better late than never
Breslin for VP!
"Unlimited personal cheapness" That just says it all for me.
Great piece of writing. His contempt just leaps off the page. Wow.
Thanks for posting that, Atrios.
Hey Atrios, a bunch of posts -- including two of mine -- are gone.
What's up? I never said anything trollish or even in response to a troll. One of my posts was asking if anybody knew how to contact Breslin personally, so I could write him a thank you. That's on topic, IMO.
I think you should find a link to Breslin's e-mail at Newsday. Just a guess though.
Poindexter's Undead, but somebody's writing ads that must be a Ghoul- maybe Rove.
As opposed to, say, a Goa'uld. Cheney's got that one.
I hated Rudy before 9/1 for being a preening jackass and right-wing moron.
I hate him after 9/11 for cashing in on it like he has.
Fuck that drooling, lisping bastard.
I think you should find a link to Breslin's e-mail at Newsday. Just a guess though. -- Donna
Thanks, Donna. I didn't see it there, but it couldn't hurt to check again.
Peanut,
It's"
jimmy.breslin@newsday.com
They don't make it easy there, you to have to go to their contacts page and search for it. Some people's idea of ease of web site navigation leaves a lot to be desired.
Here's a link that can be used to send an email to Breslin.
Scroll to the bottom of the page where you can do a search for editors and staff writers. I typed in "Breslin" and clicked on the results. A window pops up so you can send him an email at Jimmy.Breslin@newsday.com.
Show some love, people!
Oops! Thanks again, Donna. You type quicker than I do. 
Obsessive compulsive researchers' disorder (OCRD)
My note to Jimmy B:
Mr. Breslin,
My own words pale compared to the many of yours I've read in the last few years, but I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your voice, and to particularly thank you for your recent column in Newsday. I've been alternately so angry and so despairing about the world since the evil prince Bush founded his fief in 2000 that my family and friends think I've gone off the rails. I probably have. I was also similarly angry and despondent in 1969, and then again throughout the Reagan/Bush the First's reigns. My own chronic condition, or simply the only sane response to the mad world? Who knows.
I wish an infusion of Jimmy Breslin for the journalists that remain in the US who are redeemable in my eyes. And I wish for our Happy Planet intervention from the Goddess of humanity and common sense.
Be well,
Donna B., here on that *dastardly* Left Coast
PATRIOTISM IS NOT ENOUGH." But Neither Is Anything Else. Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.
" Notes on What's What, from the Old Raja in Aldous Huxley's "Island"
Sigh.
"the 'pekingese of the press' are all graduates of brown, yale etc. and most come from upper middle class backgrounds..."
And our Jimmy is an Irish terrier whose bite is way worse than his bark.
Don't like no leash, neither.
Breslin's the man. One of the few old-timers in journalism that still goes for the throat. Him, Studs, Moyer and, of course, the Good Doktor...brings to mind a George Jones song..."Who's gonna fill their shoes/Who's gonna stand that tall?"
Him, Studs, Moyer and, of course, the Good Doktor...brings to mind a George Jones song..."Who's gonna fill their shoes/Who's gonna stand that tall?"
Indeed. Studs. Moyer. I think the next generation is out there in the queue. Perhaps they're waiting their turn. I'd say they need to belly up to the bar now, eh?
Keep it comin' folks, keep it comin'. I think we will be amazed as the year comes to an end, to find out how many people hate the shrub.
When Jon Stewart had Guiliani on the other night, all I could think of is how much of a mafioso he looks. His father was in the mafia. Since Rudi made his career prosecuting mafiosi, I don't know that he is one himself. He just looks like one. He's so smarmy, too. I can't believe he's been that successful with women. He must have a hidden asset.
Waiting for an election in a coup is the stupidest act imaginable. Traitors don't deserve elections! The task is not to treat this as politics; the task is to deal with it as what it is: a Constitutional crisis.
Bush lied...Impeach NOW!
The draft bills are in Congress, the airbases are in Iraq, the coups around the world are ongoing, and the whole damn Wedding Cake of American Democracy will be a hollow shell by mid next-year, as WWIV (by their count) goes into high-gear in the Middle East.
Between Diebold and the October Surprise, there won't be a legal election in 2004. You have to be an idiot to think that traitors intend to give up power, when they have their ducks in a row for Kissingerliar's Revenge.
I have one problem with the whole flap over the ads. You don't have to be a 911 family to be offended by Bush. All New Yorkers can get angry about it.
I would like to see Breslin start writing about how these ads indicate that the Repugs will not hesitate to use ground zero during the convention as has been rumored. He has a voice to suggest that New Yorkers go down there with signs saying "Hands Off". Let Bush go to some Coned substation instead to commemorate New York going dark for a day.
Must you have one word links? Comeon I know it is your blog and I love it but I would love it even more if you would put a little more info. I am on a dial up and each link takes 30 seconds.
Please. More like cursor.org
Thanks
They don't make them like Breslin anymore: he's a howitzer with a heart.
Anybody got more oil on the mention of Guiliani's mother as a prostitute?
I don't know. This column read like an Ann Coulter article if you're a right-winger. He makes some outrageous claims, appeals to baser emotions, all without anything to back up those claims.
We don't need Ann Coulters of the Left.
still feels good to hear the truth. the claims? which ones are outrageous?
still feels good to hear the truth. the claims? which ones are outrageous?
ok thats not good. very first post on her ever and its a double post...sorry
Dubya is a lying phony with a large ego and a small heart? Rudy is an adulterous creep without a job who lies in hopes of landing a cushy job in Junior's next term?
Who knew?
Whacky Pataki
Rudy was pretty much political toast here in NYC before THE DAY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING...stuff like like threatening to shut down the Brooklyn Museum of Art had pretty much taken the bloom off his rose. But then, like many politicians, he had the good fortune of not doing anything egregiously stupid during a national crisis.
A lot of people here questioned the wisdom of putting a command center in a complex that had already been bombed once by Islamic extremists.
Breslin rules. One, he's too old to give a shit about what anyone thinks. Two, he actually gets out there and REPORTS - how many columnists do that?
Scott, this:
They don't make them like Breslin anymore: he's a howitzer with a heart.
Very nice. I love a well-turned AND alliterative phrase. You've done some poetry, yes? Just guessing ... if not you might consider it.
"Sing it again" -- a howitzer with a heart.
Steve, relax ... everybody double posts at some point. It's like when Neo goes up on the roof with Morpheus to jump building to building, and the whole crew is back there, rooting for him.
"Everybody falls the first time", they said. (a paraphrase)
After you post, DON'T hit refresh. The window refreshes automatically. Just scroll down to see your post or close the window and hit "comments" again.
Or as the Oracle said: "What's really going to bake your cookie is when you start wondering if you would have broken the vase had I not mentioned it." (a paraphrase)
Yeah I know ... a 51 year-old woman quoting the Matrix is pretty weird. Oh well.
Tena,
He's so smarmy, too. I can't believe he's been that successful with women. He must have a hidden asset.
Ya, think? The thought my put me off food tomorrow? Or perhaps it's the Kissinger definition realized ... power, the ultimate aphrodisiac. Was that Henry or Nancy Kissinger who said that?
Why does my chardonnay stop working as anesthesia after a bottle or two? Drat.
Miles, Adam, stop it: Coulter IS A LIAR. The comparison between a slef-promoting, polemical, slandering, lying sack of crap like her and a REAL JOURNALIST like Breslin is ridiculous. Who gives a shit what the right wing thinks of a Breslin column? The right wing thinks Fox News is a little squishy. Their souls are just as empty and lost as Coulter's. A swing voter, on the other hand, might just sit up and take a second thought about the Hero Giuliani after reading this takeout. The Giuliani reference was entirely of a piece with the opening and cloe of the column, by the way, because Giuliani has been flogging himself to the media recently and DEFENDED that execrable commercial. If you can't follow Breslin's logic you're not trying.
-----I don't know. This column read like an Ann Coulter article if you're a right-winger. He makes some outrageous claims, appeals to baser emotions, all without anything to back up those claims.
We don't need Ann Coulters of the Left.
Adam 4-4-2
---Wow am I the only lefty who didn't like that article? It started out great but that whole guliani thing sounded like an incoherent coulteresque rant... turned sharply left of course.
Maybe it just lost me somewheres.
Miles
make that``self-promoting''
Damn! As soon as I hit post I knew I'd blown it. There's an extra comma where it doesn't belong and a "my" before "put me off my food..."
One thing is certain: Chardonnay works to blunt the synaptic connection between brain and fingers.
Breslin is just Ann Coulter without a sense of humor or a law degree. He does a terrible thing by reminding you lefties of 9/11...an event you would dearly love to forgive and forget. Too bad. I hope he raises the issue every day until November's election.
Allow me to play devil's advocate for a minute. While what Giuliani has said and done is reprehensible and irritating, he wasn't really a nobody like Breslin says. Giuliani presided over some of the lowest crime rates New York has ever seen. And it's true, crime was decresing all over the country thanks to Clinton's policies and the booming economy, but the mayor of New York got credit for the lowering of the crime rate in New York, and damn if they didn't play it on the news every night.
I sucked
the moon
I spoke
Too soon
And how much
did it cost?
I was dropped from
moonbeams
And sailed
on shooting stars
Maybe you'll
be president
But know
right from wrong
Or in a flood you'll
build an ark
and sail us to the moon
Thom Yorke
He does a terrible thing by reminding you lefties of 9/11...an event you would dearly love to forgive and forget.
You.
Shove it sideways.
"Breslin is just Ann Coulter without a sense of humor or a law degree."
And you're a poster without even a modicum of intelligence. FOAD!
He does a terrible thing by reminding you lefties of 9/11...
You righties want another 9/11, and then another and another....
"You righties want another 9/11..."
I've read a lot of unsliced baloney from leftists on the world's websites, but that's probably the dumbest.
You people don't have a clue. Take a look at the Dumbocrat turnout for the California primary. Hordes of the clueless are staying away from the polls.
Bully! All the 50/50 nation polls in the world won't save your sorry candidate if your half doesn't vote.
But who can blame them. yrreK. What a joke.
Kelly,
That's only partly true. Giuliani did squeeze a lot of popularity out of the low crime rate, but by fall, 2001, that had started to fade. By the beginning of September if you'd polled New Yorkers on what popped into their head when they heard the word "Giuliani", I think the most popular answers would have been, "mistress", "divorce", and "prostate cancer". He was well on his way to becoming a joke when 9/11 turned him into a hero.
Hey, Theo, if your extra-special loveable smart Republican masters think 9/11 is such a great thing -- I'm guessing that's what you mean by saying lefties would like to forget it; 9/11 is good for Republicans, right? It's a good thing, right? It was the best thing ever for Bush and the Republican Party, right? Run 9/11 24/7, right? Collapsed buildings, burning bodies, fake firefighters in fake fire stations are just the ticket for Republicans, right? Have I got it right, you mealy mouthed lying little twit? -- why do your heroes run away and hide like little sniveling schoolboys and girls whenever the subject comes up of what went wrong? Why did Hastert want to put the wraps on the investigation so it wouldn't go into the election season? Your precious heroes are blaming EVERYTHING on the CIA: why put off the investigation of your scapegoats until 2005? Why would anyone who went through the monstrous disaster of 9/11/2001 and the colossally fucked up intelligence leading to a preemptive war NOT want to know what went wrong?
Here's a few possible reasons:
1) Your heroes were told -- repeatedly -- by the outgoing administration that had tried to take out bin Laden three times with missile attacks that al Qaeda was a growing, alarming and even imminent threat to do damage on American soil, and because it didn't fit with their isolationist purity of essence they blew it off and did nothing about al Qaeda AT ALL for the first 8 months of the administration. Nothing. Zip.
2) Your heroes knew an attack using US commercial aircraft was probable and imminent and, aside from the Attorney General suddenly shunning commercial flights, did nothing about it. Nada. Zip. Asleep.
3) Your heroes, rather than being misled by U.S. intellgience services, decided on DIY, cherrypicked information culled from stovepiped, unfiltered intelligence that supported their neoconservative ``vision'' of Iraq being the first domino of Democratic Domination of the Middle East. Then they trumped up WMD evidence and then lied outright about an al Qaeda-Saddam connection. Lies, lies and more lies.
Yrrek y'self, dork.
"9/11. . .an event you lefties would dearly love to forgive and forget."
i can only speak for myself, but there is something really weird about an incumbent portraying 9/11 as the high point of his tenure. i really don't understand it at all.
"i hope he raises the issue every day until november's election."
9/11 was not an "issue". it was a massive security failure which the president at the time and the mayor of nyc at the time apparently believe makes them look good for some completely unfathomable reason.
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