{"id":12961,"date":"2007-09-21T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12961.html"},"modified":"2007-09-21T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T20:15:15","slug":"giulianis-surprise-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/giulianis-surprise-phone-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani’s ‘surprise’ phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudy Giuliani and John McCain each addressed the National Rifle Association’s national convention today, and both had their speeches interrupted. One was legitimate; the other probably wasn’t.<\/p>\n

McCain, for example, was talking about his support for the Bush administration’s Iraq policy when a couple of protestors interrupted his remarks. As the protestors were led out of the room, McCain leaned into the microphone and bellowed<\/a>, “Well, my friends, we beat you yesterday, we’ll beat you today … And we’ll beat you tomorrow!”<\/p>\n

The NRA crowd, which tends to endorse Bush’s Iraq policy, rose in an enthusiastic standing ovation.<\/p>\n

Giuliani, meanwhile, got a very different interruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While delivering his big speech today before the National Rifle Association, Rudy was interrupted by a cell phone call from his wife, Judith Nathan. An apparently surprised Rudy told the crowd, “it’s my wife,” spoke to her for a moment, and closed the call with a touching, I’m-happily-married moment, saying, “I love you” to her in front of a crowd of gun rights types.<\/p>\n

Is it possible that the man forgot to turn off his cell — or at least stick the thing on vibrate — while giving a major speech that could be critical to the outcome of his candidacy? Or is it possible that Judi didn’t know about the speech?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard to know for sure, but I’m going to guess that the call was staged. It was a little p.r. stunt, and a cheap one at that, so everyone could see him telling his (third) wife, “I love you,” twice, the day after a Clinton surrogate brought up his scandalous personal life.
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\nIndeed, a different Republican presidential campaign sent Greg Sargent a clip of the last time Giuliani got a “surprise” call from his current wife.<\/p>\n

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You’ll notice, of course, that he professed his love for his wife once the applause had died down and everyone could hear it.<\/p>\n

One hates to be cynical, but given the circumstances, and Giuliani’s shamelessness, it seems like a stunt, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rudy Giuliani and John McCain each addressed the National Rifle Association’s national convention today, and both had their speeches interrupted. One was legitimate; the other probably wasn’t. McCain, for example, was talking about his support for the Bush administration’s Iraq policy when a couple of protestors interrupted his remarks. As the protestors were led out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}