Giuliani: Crying reminds me of 9/11

January 8, 2008

It’s been less than a day, and I’m already sick of hearing the media coverage of politics and crying, but leave it to Rudy Giuliani to add some unintentional humor to the situation.

For those who can’t watch video clips online, Giuliani, appearing on MSNBC, is asked for his thoughts about Hillary Clinton and tears on the campaign trail. He said, “This is not something I would judge anybody on, one way or the other. And the reality is, if you look at me, September 11 — the funerals, the memorial services — there were times in which it was impossible not to feel the emotion.”

This, of course, comes just four days after Giuliani responded to his sixth-place finish in Iowa by saying, “None of this worries me – Sept. 11, there were times I was worried.”

I’d love to meet Giuliani so he and I could play a little game — I’d bring up a random subject, and he’d have to connect it to the terrorist attacks.

“Hey, Rudy, ‘strawberry ice cream.'”

“Um, there were ice-cream vendors outside the World Trade Centers who were put out of work on 9/11.”

“OK, Rudy, how about ‘post-it note.'”

“Um, when I spent more time at Ground Zero than the rescue and relief workers, I found lots of office supplies in the wreckage.”

We could probably go all day.

From The Big Lebowski:
Walter, this is not about Vietnam.
Well, there’s not a literal connection.

A joke is a condensed version of reality. I suspect there is more to the story of Giuliani than the joke he has become. but i don’t care.

The question I have is why a legislator would be influenced by a lobbying Giuliani more than any other man off the street delivering a briefcase full of money.

  • Rudy is playing it safe.

    Somewhere someone is going to post to YouTube him crying at a funeral if he ragged on Hillary.

    Which at least shows he’s more aware of the current realities than George “Macaca” Allen.

  • I don’t think that Rudolf cried too much when he ordered a “scoop-and-dump” operation to toss 9/11 victims’ remains from Ground Zero into a landfill like garbage.

    But when enough firefighters and victims’ families cried and protested enough, the operation was ended and yielded in more victims’ remains being found.

  • I don’t believe 9/11 was an inside job, but there are plenty of unanswered questions and scandals to be uncovered even without a plot. They’ve been doing a scoop and dump with the facts.

  • Rudy is becoming a caricature of himself.

    The “9-11 inside job” theories have already been well-aired here today. Is it really desirable to have still another thread about it?

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  • I’d make a drinking game of watching Rudy, but my liver (nor my budget) would never hold up. Biden had no idea just how right he was.

  • In his campaign of gymnastic flip-flops and mind-bending distortions, Mitt Romney topped himself Monday with his hilarious claim that he’s just “a guy from Detroit.” While Detroit and Romney’s suburban childhood home in tony Bloomfield Hills might be separated by just a few miles, his privileged life there was light years away from Motor City.

    For the details, see:
    “Latest Romney Laugher: ‘Just a Guy from Detroit.'”

    Meanwhile, on Sunday in Windham, New Hampshire, the former Baptist Minister and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee returned to his roots and delivered a sermon on being “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s Army.”

    For the details, see:
    “Huckabee Delivers Sermon on ‘God’s Army’ in NH.”

  • Us: Tax-payer funded love nest.

    Guiliani: I lost one of those on 9-11. That hurts the most. You wouldn’t believe how much strange I got up in there.

    I’d make a drinking game of watching Rudy, but my liver (nor my budget) would never hold up. -z

    Pour me in.

  • In this case, I don’t think it was as bad on Giuliani as it seems. To me he was trying the think of a case where he had teared up, and that was a reasonable response. It is a little bit of the one trick pony, but not enough for me to use it against him.

    Definitely harass him for the idiotic commercial, but I don’t think this counts as much.

  • Furious – If only the Soldiers of Christ in God’s Army would be willing to go over to Iraq and keep the peace so Uncle Sam’s soldiers in the U.S. Army could come home

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  • When this is all over he can right a book: Trivializing major historical events for fun and profit

    In an ideal world, who ever was mayor of OKC* when McVeigh struck would beat Rud!e senseless as a lesson to future leaders who live through adversity.

    tAiO

    *Sorry, I don’t know his (her) name, in part because that person doesn’t strut around screaming “I’m The Mayor of America!!”

  • Guliani know he’s a joke, but he also knows the repukes are gonna steal the election for him, so he just keeps acting ridiculously. It’s an inside joke between him and Kerik, who tries to get him to say t!ts and a$$ every speech, but Guliani’s sense of humor is a bit more sophisticated than that.

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  • “I can has delgates?”[sic]

    Giuliani: “Oh, cute kitten..yeah, one day I found a kitten in a tree…I had to dial 911 to have it rescued…which reminds me of…”

  • [shows Rudy a caption photo of grinning kitten] grumble…stupid HTML parser
    “I can has delgates?”[sic]

    Giuliani: “Oh, cute kitten..yeah, one day I found a kitten in a tree…I had to dial 911 to have it rescued…which reminds me of…”

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