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

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 15, 2007 6:07 PM
2

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

Posted by Daniel K | August 15, 2007 6:35 PM
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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?

Posted by Marcus Aurelius | August 15, 2007 7:45 PM
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That was just stupid.

Posted by Sean | August 15, 2007 8:09 PM
5

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

Posted by Jude Fawley | August 15, 2007 8:18 PM
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Dan,
It's a "Lion King" parody, dumb dumb.

Posted by Dan, you can't be that ignorant | August 15, 2007 8:35 PM
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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.

Posted by Phil M | August 15, 2007 9:46 PM
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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.

Posted by Daniel "I Never Saw Lion King" K | August 15, 2007 10:05 PM
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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.

Posted by Christin | August 16, 2007 6:20 AM
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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

Posted by glen keenan | August 16, 2007 8:40 AM
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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!

Posted by NELBOT | August 16, 2007 9:26 AM
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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.

Posted by brandon | August 16, 2007 9:43 AM
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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.

Posted by paul | August 16, 2007 11:34 AM
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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.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | August 16, 2007 12:08 PM
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"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

Posted by Phil M | August 16, 2007 12:39 PM
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#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.

Posted by brandon | August 16, 2007 12:52 PM
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