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Graffiti "Scribble" On The Rise
Rudy Giuliani's legacy is being tagged away. Graffiti is back and more popular than ever &mdash complaints of taggings have risen 81.5% from 2006 to 2007. "It's not art - it's just scribble," said a random dude complaining to the New York Post. But even though graffiti has become more prevalent under Bloomberg's tenure, let's not forget that he has protected the rich from other eyesores like fatties and smokers. [NYP]
gawker stalker
Giuliani Spends Super Tuesday Reenacting Scene From Ransom
12:15pm. 68th & Lexington. An Escalade stopped illegally in front of a bus stop and a cop was about to tell the driver to move when he noticed Rudy Giuliani in the backseat. Rudy got out for a few minutes while talking on a cellphone before entering another vehicle and driving off. Nine minutes later he arrived in the same spot again and switched yet again to another car. Pretty bizarre, really bald.
"Ah!! The Bold Machinations Of Our Imaginary Democracy!"
[Jim Behrle's cute kitties mourn the end of the nation's affair with Rudy Giuliani, with special guests from the wide world of sports. Click to enlarge.]
[Jim Behrle's cute kitties mourn the end of the nation's affair with Rudy Giuliani, with special guests from the wide world of sports. Click to enlarge.]
riddance
Rudy Quits, Terrorists Win
Terrible news: America's Mayor, Mr. 9/11, twice-divorced opera-loving cross-dressing gay roommate-having Manhattan dandy Rudy Giuliani has dropped out of the race for the presidency after a dismal third place finish in the Florida primary, where he campaigned more and spent more money than any other candidate. He will focus instead on increasing his terrible blood-soaked fortune with speaking gigs and his near-criminal consulting firm. He will endorse insane old man John McCain. [NYT]
nasty man
NYT: Rudy Was A Dick
As you may have read in Vanity Fair, the Village Voice, The New Yorker, or on this very site right here, Rudy Giuliani was kind of a capricious dick back when he was mayor (and probably before then too, but who cared?). Today the Times joins the season-long pile-on, just as it becomes increasingly likely that America's Mayor won't win a single primary. The best illustrative anecdote appears early: When a chauffeur's call to Giuliani's radio show to complain about a police-rigged red light "yielded no results," the driver took his case to the Daily News. It made the front page, and then the chauffeur was arrested, that morning, and taken to court on a 13-year-old traffic warrant. Then a police spokesman falsely claimed to the Daily News that the driver had been convicted of sodomy. "Then," the Times writes, "Mr. Giuliani took up the cudgel." More »
can you digg it
Ron Paul Buries Rudy
Internet sensation Ron Paul beat former New York Commandant Rudy Giuliani in last night's Michigan primary. In fact, the government-hating congressman received more than twice as many votes as America's Mayor. Paul also beat Giuliani in Iowa and beat Fred "Die Harder" Thompson in New Hampshire. Also he has a goddamn blimp. All hail Ron Paul! Digg this post! Let's elect the internet! Ron Paul/Corey Delaney '08! [LATimes]
Rudy is a loser!
According to MSNBC analysts, including Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, and Howard Fineman, John McCain's decisive victory in New Hampshire is fantastic news for Rudy Giuliani's campaign and their decision to enter the race late with a focus on Florida. But, according to those same analysts, McCain's strong showing in New Hampshire may spell doom for Rudy's plan to enter the race late, in Florida. Also: Ron Paul might beat Rudy in New Hampshire. Is the state located on the internet?
According to MSNBC analysts, including Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, and Howard Fineman, John McCain's decisive victory in New Hampshire is fantastic news for Rudy Giuliani's campaign and their decision to enter the race late with a focus on Florida. But, according to those same analysts, McCain's strong showing in New Hampshire may spell doom for Rudy's plan to enter the race late, in Florida. Also: Ron Paul might beat Rudy in New Hampshire. Is the state located on the internet?
the decade in review
What Happened To New York: A History Of The 00's So Far
All those people—such as myself!—who complain about what New York City is like today? Too much anecdote, not enough fact. What really happened to New York City? I thought of one way to find out. Over the last month, I have read the Metro section from each issue of the New York Times—starting in mid-2000 and ending with today's paper. Here's what I learned. More »
eviscerations
This Should Be The End Of Rudy Giuliani
Can a piece of writing bring down a Presidential campaign? Well, probably not, in these times. But if it could, Elizabeth Kolbert's profile of Rudy Giuliani in today's New Yorker would. Basically she calls him a murderer, for just one thing. It's BRUTAL. And hey, it's New Year's Eve—you can spare 25 minutes to read it.
le pain purdue
Rudy Makes Killing In Pain Pill Payday
Purdue Pharma had a bit of a problem. They spent millions marketing their awesome new painkiller OxyContin as totally non-addictive, despite the fact that they knew it was very addictive. Then a bunch of poor Appalachian people started dying! And the DEA was beginning an investigation! As was a federal prosecutor! And also their own factory workers were stealing batches of the drug to sell on the black market! So, naturally, Purdue called Rudy Giuliani.More »
we're all gonna die
Giuliani: The Candidate Who Will Shoot You
In an attempt to terrify its native readers, UK paper The Guardian is showing brief documentary films on the American Presidential Primaries. This one on Rudy Giuliani features an interview with noted Giuliani-hater Wayne Barrett and brief chats with Giuliani fans welcoming their savior at a New Hampshire meet-and-greet. In this clip, a red-shirted gentleman insists that what we really need is a candidate who's not afraid to shoot you in the goddamn face. Head over to The Grauniad to see the whole thing, including a promise from the New Hampshire State Co-Chair of Veterans for Rudy that their guy's the only one with the wherewithal to combat "the rise of the Muslims." Tremble in your sandals, Old Europe! We just might elect this nut!
True Giuliani [The Guardian]
The January 14 cover of the Pat Buchanan co-founded paleo-con journal ("paleo-con" is a term that means "against the Iraq war, just like you" and also "against Amendments 13 through 26") The American Conservative just straight-up depicts Rudy Giuliani as a brown-shirt. Which is kind of hilarious except that had Buchanan been politically active in 1941 he definitely would've opposed America's meddling in Europe's fascisty affairs. The story's pretty good though. [American Conservative]
gossip roundup
Is Denise Rich Just Really Into Transactions?
rudy's new theory about the brontosaurus
How Rudy 'Turned Around' A Successful U.S. Attorney's Office
Did you know that the nationally respected and historically top-tier U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York was moribund and doomed before a crusading young prosecutor named Rudy Giuliani took it over in 1983? It's true! Rudy said so the other day while defending his criminal BFF Bernie Kerik! And it was news, apparently, to Rudy's predecessor as U.S. Attorney, John Martin. Martin has some crazy idea that Giuliani is taking too much credit for the work of others, though we know the man who single-handedly saved the world on 9/11 and reduced the national crime rate and was so effective as mayor of New York that its much ballyhooed renaissance began before he even took office would never do that. Martin, probably one of those soft-on-crime communist former U.S. Attorneys, went to the liberal New York Times to voice his petty complaints. More »
don't be denied
Rudy Giuliani: New York's Own Oskar Schindler
Much as Peter denied Jesus three times, so do some anti-American types deny Rudy Giuliani. Specifically, they deny that HE AND HE ALONE was personally responsible for making New York livable (fun fact: the only people who lived in New York before Rudy were criminals and victims of criminals, most of whom were also criminals) and for saving the entire world on 9/11 by walking uptown with some tv cameras and shooting down that one plane in Pennsylvania that was headed for a school full of orphan children learning to be firefighters. And like Peter, the deniers will die a glorious martyr's death in the inevitable Giuliani presidency. Or so we've gleaned from watching this clip of Joe Scarborough compare criticizing Giuliani's inflated record with denying the Holocaust.Scarborough Likens "Holocaust Deniers" To "Giuliani Deniers" [HuffPo]
this thing looks like that thing
Wayne Barrett Isn't Pissed At Michael Isikoff After All!
There's a feud brewing between Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett and Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff over who broke the story about Rudy Giuliani's ties to terror-financiers in the Middle East. Or so a bunch of catty mainstream publications' blogs would have you think! More »
EXTENDED BASEBALL METAPHOR EXPLAINS EVERYTHING TERRIBLE ABOUT RUDY GIULIANI! "For most of Giuliani's life, the Yankees have been the richest, most powerful, and usually winningest team in baseball. Yet the ultimate fan of baseball's biggest overdog thinks he's a brave, oppressed partisan of an underdog. Giuliani won back the city from the mongrel hordes—the descendants of Brooklyn Dodgers fans—and now he's proposing to win back the world for America." [NYM]
