Rolling Stone | Giuliani: Worse Than Bush

[kskiska]

He's cashing in on 9/11, working with Karl Rove's henchmen and in cahoots with a Swift Boat-style attack on Hillary. Will Rudy Giuliani be Bush III?

Matt Taibbi

(snip)

Giuliani has good stage presence, but his physical appearance is problematic -- virtually neckless, all shoulders and forehead and overbite, with a hunched-over, Draculoid posture that recalls, oddly enough, George W. Bush, the vestigial stoop of a once-chubby kid who grew up hiding tittie pictures from nuns. Not handsome, not cuddly, if he wins this thing it's going to be by projecting toughness and man-aura. But all presidential candidates have to play the baby-kissing game, and here is an early chance for Rudy to show his softer side.

"So," he whispers to the kids. "What do you all want to be when you grow up? Do any of you know?"

A bucktoothed boy raises his hand.

"I wanna be a doctor," he says, "and a lawyer."

The crowd laughs, then looks at Rudy expectantly. The obvious line is "A doctor and a lawyer? Whaddya want to do, sue yourself?" and you can see Rudy physically straining for the joke. But this candidate's funny bone is a microscopic thing, like one of those anvil-shaped deals in the ear, and the line eludes him.

"A doctor and a lawyer, huh?" he says, grinning nervously. "Uh . . . whaddya want to do, sue the doctor?"

My notes from that moment read: Chirping crickets.

(snip)

Did Giuliani know the air at the World Trade Center was poison? Who knows -- but we do know he took over the cleanup, refusing to let more experienced federal agencies run the show. He stood on a few brick piles on the day of the bombing, then spent the next ten months making damn sure everyone worked the night shift on-site while he bonked his mistress and negotiated his gazillion-dollar move to the private sector. Meanwhile, the people who actually cleaned up the rubble got used to checking their stool for blood every morning.

Now Giuliani is running for president -- as the hero of 9/11. George Bush has balls, too, but even he has to bow to this motherfucker.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14952564/giuliani_worse_than_bush/1

[adigal]

1. A lot of the firehouses in the FDNY

are making calls to go protest Rudy when he is in NY doing fund raising. My husband, who is out because of the air in NYC, got a few calls so far. I will go if I get enough notice.

[Skinner]

2. What a great read.

Tabbi sliced Giuliani into tiny little bits. Thanks for posting.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. I just found out hubby subscribed to Rolling Stone in the the day. Me too, just subscribed

again.

Great article, stellar publication. MKJ


:kick:

[cassiepriam]

4. The last word in put downs: YOU ARE WORSE THAN GEORGE BUSH.

[athebea]

5. Very, very good article

Giuliani's idea of the Constitution is that people who've done nothing wrong should have nothing to hide.

[katty]

6. indeed-a smiling, urbane fanatic

[KurtNYC]

7. I add that to my collection - thanks

This is another favorite (Giuliani commissioned a strategic plan for dealing with his own liabilities/flaws and boy did he get one...) :
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0212072giuliani1.html