{"id":14169,"date":"2008-01-08T14:10:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14169.html"},"modified":"2008-01-08T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:10:54","slug":"giuliani-crying-reminds-me-of-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/giuliani-crying-reminds-me-of-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani: Crying reminds me of 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been less than a day, and I&#8217;m already sick of hearing the media coverage of politics and crying, but leave it to Rudy Giuliani to add some <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/063062.php\">unintentional humor<\/a> to the situation.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"250\" height=\"185\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qu1PFTBW7OQ&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qu1PFTBW7OQ&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For those who can&#8217;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, &#8220;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 &#8212; the funerals, the memorial services &#8212; there were times in which it was impossible not to feel the emotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, comes just four days after Giuliani responded to his sixth-place finish in Iowa by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2008\/01\/03\/2008-01-03_giuliani_positive_despite_weak_campaign.html\">saying<\/a>, &#8220;None of this worries me &#8211; Sept. 11, there were times I was worried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to meet Giuliani so he and I could play a little game &#8212; I&#8217;d bring up a random subject, and he&#8217;d have to connect it to the terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, Rudy, &#8216;strawberry ice cream.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, there were ice-cream vendors outside the World Trade Centers who were put out of work on 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, Rudy, how about &#8216;post-it note.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, when I spent more time at Ground Zero than the rescue and relief workers, I found lots of office supplies in the wreckage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We could probably go all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been less than a day, and I&#8217;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&#8217;t watch video clips online, Giuliani, appearing on MSNBC, is asked for his thoughts about Hillary Clinton and tears [&hellip;]<\/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-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","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=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}