Village Voice: Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

[EFerrari]

Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11
On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record
by Wayne Barrett



Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger's way. The Republican frontrunner is campaigning for president by evoking that visual at every campaign stop, and he apparently believes it's a picture worth thousands of nights in the White House.

Giuliani has been leading the Republican pack for seven months, and predictions that the party's evangelicals would turn on him have so far proven hollow. The religious right appears as gripped by the Giuliani story as the rest of the country.

Giuliani isn't shy about reminding audiences of those heady days. In fact he hyperventilates about them on the stump, making his credentials in the so-called war on terror the centerpiece of his campaign. His claims, meanwhile, have been met with a media deference so total that he's taken to complimenting "the good job it is doing covering the campaign." Opponents, too, haven't dared to question his terror credentials, as if doing so would be an unpatriotic bow to Osama bin Laden.

Here, then, is a less deferential look at the illusory cloud emanating from the former mayor's campaign . . .
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,77463,6.html

[swag]

1. Kick it up. Great read!

[emilyg]

2. R

[EFerrari]

3. Thanks for the recs!

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[Augdog20]

4. Don't forget the DVD, ''Giuliani Time'' & "Urban Legend"

The guy was evil and opportunistic all through the 90s.

See the full monty on Rudy's lies, manipulativeness, authoritanism and nastiness in Kevin Keating's 2006 documentary, "Giuliani Time". Here's the website for the DVD/ film:
http://www.giulianitime.com/

Wayne Barrett, the author of this post's Village Voice article, has a recent (2006) book on Rudy's lide, m, a and n: "Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11" . It was published after his Rudy's lies before the 9/11 Commission about firefighters disobeying orders to evacuate the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center when actually they just couldn't hear the orders over their radios.

You can see family members talk about the outrage over the firefighter radio issue in the IAFF's video, "Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend."
http://rudy-urbanlegend.com/

[EFerrari]

7. Hey, welcome to DU, Augdog20.

:)

[lazyriver]

5. I'm going to deflate a few Rudy heads with this info n/t

[EFerrari]

6. Good!

America's mayor, my baldheaded granny.

[EFerrari]

8. One more kick so folks can put this in their back pocket.

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[Maddy McCall]

9. Excellent article.

K/R

[Az_lefty]

10. wow, they really nail him with this. It's about time...

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[ClintonTyree]

11. What a liar he is......

but then he's a RepubliCON, isn't he. The two words, liar and RepubliCON, are synonymous. I've yet to see an honest one in my 58 years on this earth.

Scum. Standing atop the victims of 9/11 to further his own political ambition. :puke: Disgusting scum.