Slog - Comments on Rudy!

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:07:23 -0800

I liked it when he dressed up as a black-face minstrel servant boy.

Comment by Daniel K

Daniel K — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:35:58 -0800

He's just one weird mofo! Please let him be the nominee!

Comment by Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:45:31 -0800

If people got pissed at the Woodland Park Zoo for hiring Maasai "cultural interpreters," well, fuck, where are these people now?

I want to see people protesting this clearly racist video.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Comment by Sean

Sean — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:09:29 -0800

That was just stupid.

Comment by Jude Fawley

Jude Fawley — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:18:25 -0800

Woah. Someone could write a freaking dissertation on that one.

Comment by Dan, you can't be that ignorant

Dan, you can't be that ignorant — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:35:43 -0800

Dan,
It's a "Lion King" parody, dumb dumb.

Comment by Phil M

Phil M — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:46:12 -0800

More fucked up:

Rudy Giuliani told ABC's Peter Jennings on September 11, 2001, that he and his staff were warned ahead of time that WTC twin towers were going to fall.

Giuliani said:

I went down to the scene and we set up, uh, headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right there with the police commissioner and the fire commissioner, the head of emergency management. And we were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse.

the ABC interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG8hMQSK4xQ

In May of 2007, Giuliani was confronted by a young lady who said she was family of a WTC collapse victim and wanted to know why, since as he reported to Peter Jennings, he knew the towers were going to collapse, the people inside weren't notified, and who else knew about this.

Giuliani responded:

The fact is, uh, I didn't know the towers would collapse."

video of the encounter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7uJnKGTGg

At the press conference after a Republican presidential candidate debate in June, 2007, Giuliani's staff had freelance reporter Matt Lepacek thrown out of the press conference and arrested for trespassing, apparently in order to avoid Lepacek's questions about Giuliani's conflicting statements about contradictory public statements about his foreknowledge of an otherwise-unexpected disaster that resulted in the deaths of several thousand people.

More fucked up than all that: Our decreasingly-free press find none of this newsworthy.

Comment by Daniel "I Never Saw Lion King" K

Daniel "I Never Saw Lion King" K — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:05:30 -0800

Dan, you can't be that ignorant said, "It's a "Lion King" parody, dumb dumb."

And that makes it any better for a potential future President of the USA? This guy is whacked.

Comment by Christin

Christin — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:20:46 -0800

No, it's not a Lion King parody. The Lion King had no theme of welfare/job search/laziness/confinement/whatever else was going on in that video. Okay, it had a lion. You might as well say it's a Sigfried and Roy parody.

Comment by glen keenan

glen keenan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:40:53 -0800

here's a great, hilarious onion news video that i think you should post in a separate post, dan!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/gays_too_precious_to_risk_in

Comment by NELBOT

NELBOT — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:26:56 -0800

That has gotta be the strangest thing I've ever seen and so inexplicable- what did he make that little gem for? Lion grap- haha!

Comment by brandon

brandon — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:43:51 -0800

lion king parody or not, it doesn't take much imagination to make the africa > black > welfare connection here.

if he wins the nomination, he's going to have some serious esplainin' to do. and i have a feeling this is just the tip o' the berg.

Comment by paul

paul — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:34:53 -0800

It's totally the Lion King costume. Check out the EMP link. http://www.empsfm.org/images/exhibits/disney/17_disney.jpg

What a dick.

Comment by Grant Cogswell

Grant Cogswell — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:08:28 -0800

Actually, Rudy's public quirks - the drag, the divorces, the mistress, etc., WORRY me. Is it possible that Americans have gotten so used to candidates expunging every shred of fallibility, personality, humanity from their resume-like lives, that they'll be stoked to vote for someone carrying around the warts and blemishes of a real person? Because more and more, I'm becoming convinced this guy is really, really dangerous, and has a fascist streak - I'm not using that word as hyperbole -that is not cynical in the least, but genuine. Oh, and this Bohemian Club dress-up playacting thing is only weird to those of us who don't make the Ivy League frathouse power circuit. They do this stuff all the time, Rudy was just a mayor instead of a CEO, so it's all on tape.

Comment by Phil M

Phil M — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:39:23 -0800

"What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." --Rudolph Giuliani, March 16, 1994

(reported by The New York Times, March 20, 1994

Comment by brandon

brandon — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:52:30 -0800

#15 isn't that some creepy ass shit? and this is *before* bush-cheney-9/11. those words will come back to haunt him - like so, so many other skeletons in his closet. pro-choice, pro-gay - who cares? that kind of talk from a likely presidential candidate is almost too scary for words.

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