Frank Rich column today on Giuliani - it's a pip

[Adelante]

What ‘That Regan Woman’ Knows

By FRANK RICH
Published: November 18, 2007

NEW Yorkers who remember Rudy Giuliani as the bullying New York mayor, not as the terminally cheerful “America’s Mayor” cooing to babies in New Hampshire, have always banked on one certainty: his presidential candidacy was so preposterous it would implode before he got anywhere near the White House.

Surely, we reassured ourselves, the all-powerful Republican values enforcers were so highly principled that they would excommunicate him because of his liberal social views, three wives and estranged children. Or a firewall would be erected by the firefighters who are enraged by his self-aggrandizing rewrite of 9/11 history. Or Judith Giuliani, with her long-hidden first marriage and Louis Vuitton ’tude, would send red-state voters screaming into the night.

Wrong, wrong and wrong. But how quickly and stupidly we forgot about the other Judith in the Rudy orbit. That would be Judith Regan, who disappeared last December after she was unceremoniously fired from Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, HarperCollins. Last week Ms. Regan came roaring back into the fray, a silver bullet aimed squarely at the heart of the Giuliani campaign.

Ms. Regan filed a $100 million lawsuit against her former employer, claiming she was unjustly made a scapegoat for the O. J. Simpson “If I Did It” fiasco that (briefly) embarrassed Mr. Murdoch and his News Corporation. But for those of us not caught up in the Simpson circus, what’s most riveting about the suit are two at best tangential sentences in its 70 pages: “In fact, a senior executive in the News Corporation organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign. This executive advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18rich.html?ex=1353042000&en=a02e17f1b9535096&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

[maddezmom]

1. good read

Giving ya a K&R. Posted it this am in E&O and it sank. :hi:

[Adelante]

2. Nice to see you in GDP!

:hi:

[maddezmom]

5. I'm a lurker

:hide: Read lots, say little. :)

[gateley]

3. K&R - thanks! nt

[antiimperialist]

4. Regan, don't release those tapes yet

Wait till October 31st, 2008 :-)

[Gabi Hayes]

6. anybody read the Chicago Tribune artlcle from the Rich piece? he TOOK his own

mayoral records when he left office, laundered them, most likely, through a tax exempt foundation (with the same address as Giuliani partners....are you shocked?), then returned them!

I hadn't heard/seen/read a word about this til now.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-giuliani_bdoct28,1,6179203.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

of course, they insist that nothing untoward happened, and that ALL records they got were returned, despite the possible 'embarrassing' nature of them. how's anybody ever going to know?