College Editor Stands Pat on Giuliani-Hitler Likeness

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/nyregion/03rudy.html

It did not take long for the editor in chief of the Middlebury College weekly student newspaper, The Middlebury Campus, to resign and apologize for publishing a doctored photograph in the March 17 issue portraying the college's next commencement speaker, Rudolph W. Giuliani, as Adolf Hitler.

But if she had the chance to do it over, Andrea Gissing, the former top editor who has taken "full responsibility" for the sardonic portrait of New York City's former mayor, said she might publish the piece again.

"I had spent a lot of time thinking about the illustration, going into it, and my decision to run that was not a light one," Ms. Gissing said in an interview on Monday. "It served the purpose of a political cartoon, which is to, you know, make people think about the issue and to react to it in a positive or negative way." Ms. Gissing resigned her job in an editorial in the March 31 issue, and cited internal reasons, not outside pressure.

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The rest of the episode goes like this: Ben Gore, a senior Middlebury student from Maryland, wrote an opinion piece, "Giuliani Is a Punk, Un-invite Him," that assailed the former mayor's legacy and referred to him as a "racist," which many students find "morally reprehensible." Though Mr. Gore wrote that Mr. Giuliani was "coming to be considered a fascist," before Sept. 11, he did not take the leap of comparing Mr. Giuliani to Hitler. That was left to the retouched photo that ran next to the column, which depicted Mr. Giuliani with a Hitler-style haircut and mustache giving a Nazi salute.

[SnowGoose]

1. He always reminded me of Colonel Klink

You tell me.

[callous taoboy]

3. Snowgoooooose! Dis-missed!

Love Hogan's Heroes.

[KurtNYC]

2. Robert Lederman had this battle 10 years ago

He said: Like Hitler, Giuliani fully understands the value of propaganda and directs virtually his entire staff's efforts toward manipulating public perception through the media. A typical Giuliani day consists of one staged photo-op after another. Many of these phony events, such as his now routine reading sessions to minority children, are designed to offset the terrible coverage his actual policies generate. Hitler was also especially fond of posing with children. The 15 million dollar police recruitment campaign that's about to begin here in New York will be nothing more than a Goebbels-like propaganda effort intended to recruit impressionable minority teens into joining the repressive police state in order to offset charges that Giuliani is a racist.

http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyhitl2.html

And much more. Giuliani denied NYers a permit to protest against the Klan when the Klan came to town. Rudy lost 24 of 26 First Amendment suits and 6 of 8 Fourth Admendment suits while mayor because he attempted to destroy the right guaranteed in the US Constitution.

[uppityperson]

4. Sounds like repub electable material to me

Just because he got to stand and look Fatherlike when something bad happened in his town doesn't outweigh all the political, social, economic and unethical bs he did prior.

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5. kick

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