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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatt Taibbi: The Year's Most Disgusting Book (Bernie Kerik's "bleeding-heart prison memoir")
The Year's Most Disgusting Book
Former top cop Bernard Kerik's bleeding-heart prison memoir is a Matterhorn of hypocrisy
By Matt Taibbi April 7, 2015
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-years-most-disgusting-book-20150407
Enter Bernie Kerik, who with this month's publication of Holy Shit: I Was Wrong About Everything For Like Thirty Straight Years (it's actually called From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey From Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #8488-054) will now go down as the most fugazi tough guy in the history of New York.
Kerik, who throughout his public life affected the look of a preposterous caricature of a political strongman, with a shaved-skull-and-mustache combo that came across as a goofball mix of Mussolini and Anton LaVey, was the guy we sent to rebuild the police forces in occupied Iraq. The Iraqis must have thought we were nuts. It's a surprise he didn't force the IPs to wear leather jerkins.
When he returned, George Bush nominated him to head the Homeland Security department. But Kerik suddenly withdrew from consideration under an avalanche of corruption charges.
It was the usual stuff for a corrupt city hack ties to organized crime, contractors working on the house in exchange for handouts, affairs, tax evasion, etc. Kerik denied it all, vowing to "battle" the accusations the way he'd fought the terrorists on 9/11.
Former top cop Bernard Kerik's bleeding-heart prison memoir is a Matterhorn of hypocrisy
By Matt Taibbi April 7, 2015
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-years-most-disgusting-book-20150407
Enter Bernie Kerik, who with this month's publication of Holy Shit: I Was Wrong About Everything For Like Thirty Straight Years (it's actually called From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey From Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #8488-054) will now go down as the most fugazi tough guy in the history of New York.
Kerik, who throughout his public life affected the look of a preposterous caricature of a political strongman, with a shaved-skull-and-mustache combo that came across as a goofball mix of Mussolini and Anton LaVey, was the guy we sent to rebuild the police forces in occupied Iraq. The Iraqis must have thought we were nuts. It's a surprise he didn't force the IPs to wear leather jerkins.
When he returned, George Bush nominated him to head the Homeland Security department. But Kerik suddenly withdrew from consideration under an avalanche of corruption charges.
It was the usual stuff for a corrupt city hack ties to organized crime, contractors working on the house in exchange for handouts, affairs, tax evasion, etc. Kerik denied it all, vowing to "battle" the accusations the way he'd fought the terrorists on 9/11.
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Matt Taibbi: The Year's Most Disgusting Book (Bernie Kerik's "bleeding-heart prison memoir") (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Apr 2015
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AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)1. Cheney just released a book that surely is a contender. /nt
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. The crook was Chimpy McCokespoon's nominee to head Homeland Security
Which bothers me on many levels.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2788428
Gloria
(17,663 posts)3. I heard this guy on Sunday on MOney Matters, a financial show on RW WOR...
Yeah, he's sad people can't get jobs after jail...and boo hoo, his buddy Rudy G. sort of abandoned him during his time of trial.
This ass was screwing in an office overlooking the devastated WTC site and probably was stealing money along with Rudy with the
Tower Fund.
A real crook...but he'll do FINE after jail, heck his book will be sold all over RW-land...
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)4. He's a regular "Fox News Contributor"...
...Rupert will throw him a bone and have him on as a guest across the boards, and yeah...the Fox audience will lap it up like kittens with cream.
Who said crime doesn't pay?