Slog - Comments on Attacking Rudy, First in a Series http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series NEW YORK - A filmmaker who was behind documentaries that bashed Rupert Murdoch and Wal-Mart is now focusing on Rudy Giuliani, creating an "online viral video campaign" about the presidential candidate timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack. Robert Greenwald on Thursday launched the first of four short videos about Sept. 11 and the Republican former mayor. The others are planned to launch throughout the month. Here's the first, about Giuliani's ill-fated emergency command center:... Copyright 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:37:19 -0800 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:45:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by left coast I think anyone who lived in New York at the time can tell you that locating the command center at the WTC complex was controversial and questionned widely. It was certainly a political decsion, and it appeared that Rudy was behind it. The radios for fireman were another sore spot from after the first bombing until 9/11. I think responsibility for that debacle lays with Rudy as well.

Rudy only looked good by comparison. Bush was hiding like the fucking mama's boy that he is, and here was Rudy on the street. Bush didn't show up for days. The most ridiculous aspect is how often the Bush bullhorn PR stunt got played on TV. That and Rudy's calling off the search after that gold was dug up.

The firemen were hereos that day. I think everyone in New York wanted to be one of them after 9/11. If they and their families are calling Rudy a snake, there's not an ounce of doubt in my mind that he is. I hated him as a mayor. I gave hima brief reprieve after 9/11 b/c the federal gov't seemed not to be operational and he was out on the street. But I'm back to thinking that he's just an opportunist who's used 9/11 to advance his own agenda.

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798422 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798422 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:39:55 -0800 Comment by Phil M Hey, did you know that Giuliani told Peter Jennings that he had foreknowledge of--

Ah, forget it.

]]> Phil M http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798447 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:55:08 -0800 Comment by Chris in Tampa I like how they blurred out the FoxNews Emblem

]]> Chris in Tampa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798526 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798526 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:40:02 -0800 Comment by Bald Face Lie Guiliani spent more time at Yankee Games than at Ground Zero

]]> Bald Face Lie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798618 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798618 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:54:51 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi I don't understand the Rudy worship. In the aftermath of the attack, the man behaved competently, no more, no less. That should be expected of the mayor of the largest city in the country. I suppose, at this point in history, American politicians are so inept that simple competence astounds and delights the public.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798669 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:26:11 -0800 Comment by K X One

The Democrats need to get the message out to people all over America what a dirtbag Giulliania is. I have this fear that somehow he is going to end up our next president.

]]> K X One http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798753 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/attacking_rudy_first_in_a_series#c798753 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:45:40 -0800