12/18/07
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By Choire

Comment by dotorg greg: I think he was up for the femmy capoeira-dancing aristo-thief and didn't get it. It's like Rupert's going all... more » | Other threads

  • 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 »
    12/17/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Colonel Mustard: @IBentMyWookie: I hate him with everything else, so why not? more » | Other threads

  • 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. More »
    12/12/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Mr-Busy: He cleaned up Times Square... not alone, Disney and the new video industry helped rid the area of its porn,... more » | Other threads

  • 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 »
    12/04/07
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    By Maggie

    Comment by TheBigDoggy: Michael Isikoff looks quite proud of himself, as if he just finished crapping in Matt Drudge's fedora. more » | Other threads

  • scary

    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]
    12/03/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by gefilte_fish_blues: (Devil) Rays in 08'. more » | Other threads

  • vanity fair

    'Voice' And 'Vanity Fair' Are Tag Teaming Rudy Giuliani

    Today's Village Voice featuresa huge Giuliani story by Rudy's own personal nemesis, Wayne Barrett. According to Barrett, Giuliani's consulting contracts in the Middle East have him doing business with some close friends of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, one of the masterminds of 9/11. Not exactly the kind of association America's Mayor wants made public five weeks before the Iowa caucuses! But the Voice isn't the only media outlet turning up the heat on Giuliani in time for primary season. More »
    11/28/07
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    By Maggie

    Comment by tammyfey: @Mediahohoho: States' rights! more » | Other threads

  • in search of lost giuliani time

    Giuliani In 'Apparently Kind Of Chubby' Shocker

    Oh and also he grew up surrounded by cops and mobsters which is why he's both fascistic and corrupt. His childhood was kinda like Angels With Dirty Faces except he's not as good a dancer as Cagney or as charming as Leo Gorcey. More »
    11/26/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Ummwhat: Go Yank-meees!! more » | Other threads

  • backgraft

    John Orlando, the only real-life firefighter who likes Rudy Giuliani, mysteriously got paid by Rudy's campaign for "political strategy consulting" three months after he alone praised America's Mayor in a Times article about how all the firefighters hate Rudy. We are thankful for Rudy's spokesman's response to HuffPo's investigation: "Are you suggesting that firefighters aren't capable of political strategy?" [HuffPo]
    11/21/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Niko Bellic: I too am capable of (for example!) whoring. Just not willing. Yet. more » | Other threads

  • nitpicking

    Cover of Today's 'Post' Proves Joe Biden Wrong

    Remember when manly-man long-shot Dem candidate Joe Biden called Rudy Giuliani "the most under-qualified man since George W. Bush to seek the presidency"? The Delaware senator cattily continued: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11." Well, actually, "I" is a pronoun, so sorry, Mr. Biden, America's Bigamist is totally qualified to be president.
    11/19/07
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    By JonLiu

    Comment by jasonelias: How many times has Rudy been married? There was his cousin, Donna Hanover, the troll, Bernie Kerik... more » | Other threads

  • 24

    Handicapping the field of Republican presidential nominee hopefuls, 24 showrunner/televised-torture innovator Joel Surnow says that Hollywood's half-empty-handful of conservatives are leaning Giuliani-ward, an expression of support that can't bode well for Law & Order star Fred Thompson's already-doomed candidacy. Also, he's not exactly bullish on Hillary Clinton's electability: "'I'm not even sure that Hillary is a fait accompli [to win the Democratic Party nomination] as this point,' Mr. Surnow told a group of reporters and bloggers in a wide-ranging interview during the Young America's Foundation's (YAF) West Coast Leadership Conference. 'Are we nuts thinking Hillary Clinton could be president of this country? Honest to God, just stand back and think about it.'" And for those without the imagination to "just stand back and think about it," the upcoming season of his show (if it ever airs) should play out in thrilling detail the apocalyptic worst-case scenario that could face the nation if it follows 24-America in putting a Hillaryesque president in the White House. [Washington Times]
    11/12/07
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    By Mark
  • god's mayor

    World's Strongest Man Endorses America's Mayor

    Marion "Pat" Robertson is the founder of the Christian Coalition, host of the 700 Club, and the strongest man in the world. Also he theoretically might be still kind of an important figure among all the Jesus people? It's hard to tell these days! We need a lengthy Times magazine story to either scare the shit out of the sinning Manhattanites or ease their worries with soothing promises that the fundies have all decided they like Obama. Anyway! Today, this Robertson guy took a break from hoisting a bus stop aloft with one arm tied behind his back to endorse fellow occasionally terrifying self-parody Rudy Giuliani. This is the point at which Mitt Romney would shoot himself in the head—if he wasn't concerned it'd muss his hair. More »
    11/07/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by preppylouche: Mitt Romney CAN'T shoot himself in the hair! Who will take care of his wives? more » | Other threads

  • dealing with embarrassing friends

    Giuliani Defends Kerik: He Gets Results, Dammit!

    If Rudy Giuliani can be half as criminal and corrupt while president as his tax-evading public fraud-committing police commissioner Bernie Kerik was back in the day, American will finally be safe. Or so he said to the AP, in yet another installment of our favorite series, "Rudy Giuliani defends his indefensible friends with vague platitudes about about mistakes and forgiveness." More »
    11/06/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Paddington: I bet Kerik would have gotten help to the Katrina victims more quickly. more » | Other threads

  • survivors

    Rudy Giuliani Is A Welfare Queen!

    Rudy Giuliani, the Mayor of 9/11, began running a radio ad in New Hampshire this week that's all about how he survived his prostrate cancer without any help from the government. "I had prostate cancer five, six years ago. My chance of surviving cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82 percent. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44 percent under socialized medicine." Of course, because Rudy Giuliani is saying those things, each sentence contains its own egregious lie. Even the first one! More »
    11/02/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by in the pitts: How many of us in academia (we're still paying off school loans, btw) work 28 hours a week here and... more » | Other threads

  • hero watch

    Why Can't Bernie Kerik Catch A Break?

    Bernie Kerik—Rudy's ultimate bro, former New York police commish, quickly-withdrawn nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, baldie, sexer-of-Judith Regan at a free Ground Zero apartment, former Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq (we always forget that one), and all-around mobbed-up creep—is apparently evading more than just taxes. His lawyers are suing him for $200,000 in unpaid legal bills! Soon he will hire super-publicist Ronn Torossian and we can all watch him on Fox even more often. More »
    10/31/07
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Newacademy: And dont forget the nanny- eveyone always forgets the nanny. She was disapeared pretty damn fast.JBK- they would have a... more » | Other threads

  • whipped

    Giuliani More Afraid Of His Wife Than Of Mafia

    You wish you were cool enough to have mob bosses after your head, like GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Two out of five mafia bosses wanted to waste Giuliani in the 80s, when the future mayor was all up in their business. "The reality is, I've dealt with this all of my life," Giuliani told Fox last week. "If you've got to live with threats, you live with threats." Oh, what a badass. But where oh where does this moxie disappear to when Judith calls him in the middle of a major political event? Earlier this month, Giuliani took his wife's call smack dab in the middle of a televised speech he was giving to the NRA. "If he wants voters to respect his privacy, he ought to show some respect for basic manners," wrote John Fund in the Wall Street Journal. In all fairness to Rudy, Fund isn't exactly the arbiter on etiquette—we hear the columnist has absolutely terrifying table manners.
    10/25/07
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    By Maggie

    Comment by VoxPopuli: Have you seen his wife's crazy eyes? I'd be afraid of her too if she locked her death stare on... more » | Other threads